From the release notes:

Python 2.7.2 was released on June 11th, 2011.

The Python 2.7 series is scheduled to be the last major version in the 2.x series before 2.x moves into an extended maintenance period. The 2.7 series contains many of the features that were first released in Python 3.1. Improvements in this release include:

• 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

Fixes #1159

New spkg: http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/jdemeyer/spkg/python-2.7.2.p1.spkg (diffs for reviewing (without deleted files): attachment: python-2.7.2.p0.diff and attachment: python-2.7.2.p0-p1.diff)

Apply:

• attachment: 9958_float_printing.patch
• attachment: 9958_exceptions.patch
• attachment: 9958_combinat.patch
• attachment: 9958_misc.patch

Depends on #5852
Depends on #11986
Depends on #12085
Depends on #12096
Depends on #12124
Depends on #11915

CC: @jhpalmieri @nexttime @jasongrout @kcrisman @kini

Component: packages: standard

Author: François Bissey, Steven Trogdon, Jeroen Demeyer

Reviewer: John Palmieri, Karl-Dieter Crisman, Jason Grout, Jeroen Demeyer, Steven Trogdon, Leif Leonhardy, Sébastien Labbé, François Bissey

Merged: sage-5.0.beta0

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/9958