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Python 2.6.1

Release Date: Dec. 4, 2008

Python 2.6.1 was released on December 4th, 2008.

This is the first bugfix release of Python 2.6. Python 2.6 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. Dozens of bugs that were reported since the release of 2.6 final have been fixed.

See the detailed release notes for more details.

  • Andrew Kuchling's guide to What's New in Python 2.6.
  • NEWS file contains a listing of everything that's new in each alpha, beta, and release candidate of Python 2.6.
  • PEP 361.

Please report bugs at http://bugs.python.org

See also the license.

Python 2.6.1 Released: 04-Dec-2008

Download

This is a production release; we currently support these formats:

MD5 checksums and sizes of the released files:

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e81c2f0953aa60f8062c05a4673f2be0  10960385  Python-2.6.1.tar.bz2
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The signatures for the source tarballs above were generated with GnuPG using release manager Barry Warsaw's public key which has a key id of EA5BBD71. The Windows installers were signed by Martin von Löwis' public key which has a key id of 7D9DC8D2. The signature on the Mac disk image was signed by Benjamin Peterson's public key which has a key id of A4135B38.

Documentation

The documentation has also been updated. You can browse the HTML on-line or download the HTML:

[1]The binaries for AMD64 will also work on processors that implement the Intel 64 architecture (formerly EM64T), i.e. the architecture that Microsoft calls x64, and AMD called x86-64 before calling it AMD64. They will not work on Intel Itanium Processors (formerly IA-64).

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Files

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bzip2 compressed source tarball Source release e81c2f0953aa60f8062c05a4673f2be0 10.5 MB SIG
Mac OS X installer macOS ea72cc669a33d266c34aa9ef5d660933 22.9 MB SIG
Windows x86 MSI installer Windows 9ed57add157ce069c0f8584f11b77991 13.8 MB SIG
Windows x86-64 MSI installer Windows for AMD64/EM64T/x64 ece88acad43e854587a46aaa8a070c9c 14.1 MB SIG