http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/quantal-desktop-amd64.manifest
I see lots of mentions to Python 2.7 in the manifest of the desktop edition of Ubuntu 12.10 (beta): libpython2.7 2.7.3-5ubuntu1 python 2.7.3-0ubuntu5 python2.7 2.7.3-5ubuntu1 python2.7-minimal 2.7.3-5ubuntu1 So even if it's not the *default* version of Python, the ISO is definitely *shipping* with 12.10. The fact that "apt-get install python" (no version number) appears at first glance to default to 2.7.3 seems reassuring to me. --
