Скачать или смотреть Python2.7 Installation in Linux

Python 2.7 is scheduled to be the last major version in the 2.x series before it moves into an extended maintenance period. This release contains many of the features that were first released in Python 3.1. Improvements in this release include:

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