Python 2.7.4

Release Date: April 6, 2013

Note: A newer bugfix release, 2.7.5, is currently available. Its use is recommended over previous versions of 2.7.

Python 2.7.4 was released on April 6, 2013. This is a 2.7 series bugfix release. It includes hundreds of bugfixes over 2.7.3.

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

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