Python 2.7.8
Release date: July 2, 2014
Python 2.7.8 was released on July 1, 2014. This release includes regression and security fixes over 2.7.7 including:
- The openssl version bundled in the Windows installer has been updated.
- A regression in the mimetypes module on Windows has been fixed.
- A possible overflow in the buffer type has been fixed.
- A bug in the CGIHTTPServer module which allows arbitrary execution of code in the server root has been patched.
- A regression in the handling of UNC paths in os.path.join has been fixed.
Download
This is a production release. Please report any bugs you encounter.
We currently support these formats for download:
- Windows x86 MSI Installer (2.7.8)
- Windows x86 MSI program database (2.7.8)
- Windows X86-64 MSI Installer (2.7.8) [1]
- Windows X86-64 MSI program database (2.7.8) [1]
- Windows help file
- Mac OS X 64-bit/32-bit x86-64/i386 Installer (2.7.8) for Mac OS X 10.6 and later [2] (sig). [You may need an updated Tcl/Tk install to run IDLE or use Tkinter, see note 2 for instructions.]
- Mac OS X 32-bit i386/PPC Installer (2.7.8) for Mac OS X 10.5 and later [2] (sig).
- Mac OS X 32-bit i386/PPC Installer (2.7.8) for Mac OS X 10.3 and later (deprecated, see below) [2] (sig).
- XZ compressed source tar ball (2.7.8) (sig)
- Gzipped source tar ball (2.7.8) (sig)
The source tarballs are signed with Benjamin Peterson's key, which has key id 18ADD4FF. The Mac installers were signed with Ned Deily's key, which has a key id of 6F5E1540. The public keys are located on the download page.
MD5 checksums and sizes of the released files:
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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 2.7.8 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 2.7.8 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
macOS
Windows
Source release
| Version | Operating system | Description | File size | GPG | MD5 checksum |
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| Gzipped source tarball | Source release | 14.2 MB | SIG | d4bca0159acb0b44 |
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| XZ compressed source tarball | Source release | 10.0 MB | SIG | d235bdfa75b83969 |
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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 | 23e9a3e4e0e4ef2f |
| Mac OS X 64-bit/32-bit installer | macOS | for Mac OS X 10.6 and later | 19.4 MB | SIG | 183f72950e4d04a7 |
| Windows help file | Windows | 5.8 MB | SIG | 1cda33c3546f20b4 |
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| Windows debug information files | Windows | 24.2 MB | SIG | 83c1b28264ca8eb1 |
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| Windows debug information files for 64-bit binaries | Windows | 22.5 MB | SIG | 1d573b6422d4b00a |
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| Windows x86 MSI installer | Windows | 15.9 MB | SIG | ef95d83ace85d157 |
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| Windows x86-64 MSI installer | Windows | for AMD64/EM64T/x64 | 16.4 MB | SIG | 38cadfcac6dd56ec |