Unless bad things happen, we'll release 2.2a4 tomorrow. I've just created the release branch (r22a4-branch) and will be making some small version-adjusting changes to it next. As before, please don't make checkins to this branch -- if you have something that you'd like to go in, please check it in to the trunk and send an email to python-dev. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)