#9958: Upgrade python to 2.7
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   Reporter:  mhampton     |          Owner:  tbd       
       Type:  enhancement  |         Status:  needs_work
   Priority:  major        |      Milestone:            
  Component:  packages     |       Keywords:            
Work_issues:               |       Upstream:  N/A       
   Reviewer:               |         Author:            
     Merged:               |   Dependencies:            
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Old description:

> From the release notes:
>
> Python 2.7 was released on July 3rd, 2010.
>
> Python 2.7 is scheduled to be the last major version in the 2.x series
> before it moves into an extended maintenance period. This release
> 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
>
> Depends on #11156 #11236

New description:

 From the release notes:

 Python 2.7 was released on July 3rd, 2010.

 Python 2.7 is scheduled to be the last major version in the 2.x series
 before it moves into an extended maintenance period. This release 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

 Depends on #11156 #11236 #11244

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Comment(by fbissey):

 Split the deprecation issue in its own ticket in #11244 - this is a
 different patch.

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