599749 - Update Python to 2.6.6 from 2.6.5

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 578584

(Firefox Build System :: MozillaBuild, task)

Comment 1

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

PS: Not sure whether we would want to go to 2.7 yet.
http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7/

Comment 2

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

What's the upside here? I don't tend to update things just because there's a newer version available, but only if we actually need some feature of the newer version.

Comment 3

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

I don't know: I just read a couple things which caught my eyes...

2.6:
"Python 2.6.6 is ... fixing dozens of issues in the core, builtin modules, libraries, and documentation".

2.7:
"A much faster io module"
(which I wondered whether it would help our test suites.
Apart from using the current 2.x version...)

Atm, I see no hurry in this, but would suggest it whenever the next MozBuild release happens.