https://soft.ipcn.org/2006/09/python_25_released.html
http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5/
We are pleased to announce the release of Python 2.5 (FINAL), the final, production release of Python 2.5, on September 19th, 2006.
Python 2.5 is the latest major release of Python. There's a bunch of places you can look for more information on what's new in this release -- see the "What's New" section further down this page.
This is a final release, and should be suitable for production use.
http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.5/python-2.5.msi
http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.5/Python-2.5.tgz
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What's New?
* See some of the highlights of the Python 2.5 release.
* Andrew Kuchling's What's New in Python 2.5 describes the most visible changes since Python 2.4 in more detail.
* PEP 356 has information on a bunch of the new features added in 2.5, as well as pointers to the relevant PEPs.
* A detailed list of the changes in Python 2.5 can be found in the release notes, or the Misc/NEWS file in the source distribution.
* IDLE has its own release notes, or see the Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt file in the source distribution.
* For the full list of changes, you can poke around in Subversion.
