On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I  
am happy to announce the third alpha release of Python 2.6, and the  
fifth alpha release of Python 3.0.

Please note that these are alpha releases, and as such are not  
suitable for production environments.  We continue to strive for a  
high degree of quality, but there are still some known problems and  
the feature sets have not been finalized.  These alphas are being  
released to solicit feedback and hopefully discover bugs, as well as  
allowing you to determine how changes in 2.6 and 3.0 might impact
you.  If you find things broken or incorrect, please submit a bug  
report at

    http://bugs.python.org

For more information and downloadable distributions, see the Python
2.6 website:

    http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/

and the Python 3.0 web site:

    http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/

These are the last planned alphas for both versions.  If all goes  
well, next month will see the first beta releases of both, which will  
also signal feature freeze.  Two beta releases are planned, with the  
final releases scheduled for September 3, 2008.

See PEP 361 for release details:

     http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/

Enjoy,
- -Barry

Barry Warsaw
ba...@python.org
Python 2.6/3.0 Release Manager
(on behalf of the entire python-dev team)

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