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# What’s New in Python 2.7

Author: | A.M. Kuchling (amk at amk.ca)
Release: | 3.0
Date: | December 04, 2008

This article explains the new features in Python 2.7. No release schedule has been decided yet for 2.7.

## Other Language Changes

Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are:

- List of changes to be written here.

### Optimizations

To be written.

## New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules

As in every release, Python’s standard library received a number of enhancements and bug fixes. Here’s a partial list of the most notable changes, sorted alphabetically by module name. Consult the `Misc/NEWS` file in the source tree for a more complete list of changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details.

- To be written.

## Build and C API Changes

Changes to Python’s build process and to the C API include:

- To be written.

### Port-Specific Changes: Windows

### Port-Specific Changes: Mac OS X

## Porting to Python 2.7

This section lists previously described changes and other bugfixes that may require changes to your code:

To be written.

## Acknowledgements

The author would like to thank the following people for offering suggestions, corrections and assistance with various drafts of this article: no one yet.

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