The Python language’s developers have released Python 2.6 final, the stepping stone Python 2.x release to allow developers to use some Python 3.0 features.
A number of new modules have been added to Python 2.6. A multiprocessing module has been added which allows Python programs to run mutiple concurrent processes, rather than threads, and coordinate those processes with queues, pipes, locks and semaphores, potentially allowing Python to exploit multicore CPUs more effectively.
