Python 2.7 beta 1

The first beta of 2.7 has become available for download with a number of innovations that will remind many of the latest release of the 3.1 branch.

• New type - ordered dictionary
• New functionality in unit tests
• Io acceleration
• Automatic field numbering in the str.format () method
• Enhance float view
• Ttk support tkinter
• Memoryview object from branch 3.x
• Set literals
• Dictionary views
• New syntax of nested structures with the with statement
• Sysconfig module

• Gzipped source tar ball (2.7b1)
• Bzipped source tar ball (2.7b)
• Windows x86 MSI Installer (2.7b1)
• Windows X86-64 MSI Installer (2.7b1)

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Change log

Whats New in Python 2.7



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