Warning: Python 2.6.5 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: March 18, 2010
Python 2.6.5 was a maintenance release for Python 2.6.4, fixing dozens of issues in the core, builtin modules, libraries, and documentation. Python 2.6.5 final was released on March 19, 2010.
Python 2.6 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. The NEWS file lists every change in each alpha, beta, and release candidate of Python 2.6.
- What's New in Python 2.6.
- Report bugs at http://bugs.python.org.
- Read the Python license.
- PEP 361 set out the development schedule for 2.6.
Help fund Python and its community by donating to the Python Software Foundation.
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
| Version | Operating system | Description | File size | GPG | MD5 checksum |
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| Gzipped source tarball | Source release | 55.4 MB | SIG | c83cf77f32463c39 |
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| bzip2 compressed source tarball | Source release | 10.6 MB | SIG | 6bef0417e71a1a17 |
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| Mac OS X installer | macOS | 19.4 MB | 84489bba813fdbb6 |
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| Windows x86 MSI installer | Windows | 14.4 MB | SIG | 0b6bc43c45fb2e31 |
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| Windows x86-64 MSI installer | Windows | for AMD64/EM64T/x64 | 14.7 MB | SIG | 9cd2c4d23dea7dfc |