Download

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

• Gzipped source tar ball (2.6.3) (sig)
• Bzipped source tar ball (2.6.3) (sig)
• Windows x86 MSI Installer (2.6.3) (sig)
• Windows X86-64 MSI Installer (2.6.3) [1] (sig)
• Mac Installer disk image (2.6.3) (sig)

MD5 checksums and sizes of the released files:

c4842532170fc0a6f9e878497efc0ddf  13319447  Python-2.6.3.tgz
8755fc03075b1701ca3f13932e6ade9f  11249543  Python-2.6.3.tar.bz2
f7382afe57e21ced274eeec614dbda37  15214592  python-2.6.3.amd64.msi
9ff76b6101fdb1c935970476ed428569  14871552  python-2.6.3.msi
114d26c741d4c0b8ee91191a7a06aa2a  20329350  python-2.6.3-macosx.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).