Download

This is a production release; we currently support these formats:

• Gzipped source tar ball (2.6.5) (sig)
• Bzipped source tar ball (2.6.5) (sig)
• Windows x86 MSI Installer (2.6.5) (sig)
• Windows X86-64 MSI Installer (2.6.5) [1] (sig)
• Mac Installer disk image (2.6.5) (sig)

MD5 checksums and sizes of the released files:

cd04b5b9383b6c1fccdaa991af762cf4  13209175  Python-2.6.5.tgz
6bef0417e71a1a1737ccf5750420fdb3  11095581  Python-2.6.5.tar.bz2
9cd2c4d23dea7dfcd964449c3008f042  15430656  python-2.6.5.amd64.msi
0b6bc43c45fb2e3195ecdab3fad59fc2  15103488  python-2.6.5.msi
84489bba813fdbb6041b69d4310a86da  20348693  python-2.6.5-macosx10.3-2010-03-24.dmg

The signatures for the source tarballs above were generated with GnuPG using release manager Barry Warsaw's public key which has a key id of A74B06BF. The Windows installers were signed by Martin von Löwis' public key which has a key id of 7D9DC8D2. The Mac disk image was signed by Ronald Oussoren's public key which has a key id of E6DF025C.

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).