Warning: Python 2.6.1 reached end-of-life on 2013-10-29. It is no longer supported and does not receive security updates. We recommend upgrading to the latest Python release.
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
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). |
Files
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| Gzipped source tarball | Source release | 54.4 MB | SIG | e45fa12c1ab2c235 |
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| bzip2 compressed source tarball | Source release | 10.5 MB | SIG | e81c2f0953aa60f8 |
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| Mac OS X installer | macOS | 22.9 MB | SIG | ea72cc669a33d266 |
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| Windows x86 MSI installer | Windows | 13.8 MB | SIG | 9ed57add157ce069 |
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| Windows x86-64 MSI installer | Windows | for AMD64/EM64T/x64 | 14.1 MB | SIG | ece88acad43e8545 |