It's time to upgrade the python distributed with o4w to the current stable upstream release in the 2.x series, namely 2.7 (ticket #219). To that end here is a list of packages which rely on python, and their current status with regard to being py2.7 ready.

Please update the chart as needed.

Package	2.7 ready	upgrade lead
apt	yes	MattWilkie
gdal16-autotest	?	you?
gdal16-python	?	you?
gdal17-python	?	you?
gdal-autotest	?	you?
gdal-dev	?	you?
gdal-python	?	you?
grass	?	you?
grass-devel	?	you?
grass-devel-mingw	?	you?
grass-devel-vc	?	you?
liblas-python	?	you?
mapfish_framework	?	you?
mapnik	?	you?
mapscript-dev-python	?	you?
mapscript-python	?	you?
natgrid	?	you?
psycopg2	?	you?
pyopengl	?	you?
pyparsing	?	you?
pyqt4	?	you?
pyqwt5-qt4	?	you?
pyspatialite	?	you?
python	?	you?
python-geopy	?	you?
python-numpy	?	you?
python-qgis	?	you?
python-rpy	?	you?
python-rpy2	?	you?
python-shapely	?	you?
python-simplejson	?	you?
python-win32	?	you?
python-win32-demos	?	you?
qgis	?	you?
qgis1.1	?	you?
qgis-dev	?	you?
qgis-devel	?	you?
qgis-full	?	you?
qgis-grass-plugin	?	you?
qgis-unstable	?	you?
sip	?	you?
wxpython	?	you?