Warning: Python 2.6.9 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: Oct. 29, 2013
With the 2.6.9 release, and five years after its first release, the Python 2.6 series is now officially retired. All official maintenance for Python 2.6, including security patches, has ended. For ongoing maintenance releases, please see the Python 2.7 series. The NEWS file lists every change in each alpha, beta, release candidate, and final release 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.
Notes
Users of Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) may be affected by issue 18458, experiencing crashes when using the interactive interpreter. This bug is not fixed by the Python 2.6.9 release. If you are having this problem, please review your options by visiting the issue tracker.
Developers on Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) or later may experience problems when building Python 2.6 from source, due to the adoption of multiarch support. See issue 9762 for additional details and workarounds.
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| Gzipped source tarball | Source release | 56.5 MB | SIG | 458a6bd5c01bdae9 |
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| XZ compressed source tarball | Source release | 8.9 MB | SIG | 933a811f11e3db3d |