Warning: Python 2.7.7 reached end-of-life on 2020-01-01. It is no longer supported and does not receive security updates. We recommend upgrading to the latest Python release.
Release date: June 1, 2014
Note: Python 2.7.7 has been superseded by Python 2.7.8
Python 2.7.7 was released on May 31, 2014. This is a regularly scheduled 2.7 series bugfix and includes numerous bugfixes over 2.7.6.
Resources
About the 2.7 release series
Among the features and improvements to Python 2.6 introduced in the 2.7 series are
- An ordered dictionary type
- New unittest features including test skipping, new assert methods, and test discovery
- A much faster io module
- Automatic numbering of fields in the str.format() method
- Float repr improvements backported from 3.x
- Tile support for Tkinter
- A backport of the memoryview object from 3.x
- Set literals
- Set and dictionary comprehensions
- Dictionary views
- New syntax for nested with statements
- The sysconfig module
Binary installer support for OS X 10.4 and 10.3.9 to be discontinued
Python 2.7.7 is the last release for which binary installers will be released on python.org that support Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther) and 10.4.x (Tiger) systems. For Python 2.7.7 only, we are providing three OS X binary installers: the unchanged 10.6+ 64-bit/32-bit format, the deprecated 10.3+ 32-bit-only format, and the newer 10.5+ 32-bit-only format. See the README included with the installer downloads for more information.
| [1] | (1, 2) 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). |
| [2] | (1, 2, 3) There is important information about IDLE, Tkinter, and Tcl/Tk on Mac OS X here. |
Files
| Version | Operating system | Description | File size | GPG | MD5 checksum |
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| Gzipped source tarball | Source release | 14.1 MB | SIG | cf842800b67841d6 |
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| XZ compressed source tarball | Source release | 10.0 MB | SIG | 41f7348b348e3f72 |
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| Mac OS X 32-bit i386/PPC installer | macOS | for Mac OS X 10.5 and later | 19.5 MB | SIG | 73aa1007f721bcb4 |
| Mac OS X 64-bit/32-bit installer | macOS | for Mac OS X 10.6 and later | 19.4 MB | SIG | 7f79090c979299e3 |
| Windows help file | Windows | 5.8 MB | SIG | 0b7bd740a41edda1 |
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| Windows debug information files | Windows | 24.1 MB | SIG | abb3d9c5207045e5 |
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| Windows debug information files for 64-bit binaries | Windows | 22.5 MB | SIG | 99e68b15fb43a5f2 |
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| Windows x86 MSI installer | Windows | 15.9 MB | SIG | 35ff484a9cf08d15 |
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| Windows x86-64 MSI installer | Windows | for AMD64/EM64T/x64 | 16.4 MB | SIG | 497e749747ebd31e |