What’s New in Python 2.7¶ Author: A.M. Kuchling (amk at amk.ca) This article explains the new features in Python 2.7. Python 2.7 was released on July 3, 2010. Numeric handling has been improved in many ways, for both floating-point numbers and for the Decimal class. There are some useful additions to the standard library, such as a greatly enhanced unittest module, the argparse module for parsing