http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0251.html

still says september 19th.

We've had some slippage (I don't want to blame it on terrorism, but last week wasn't particularly productive). I expect 2.2a4 to arrive sometime next week. You have an extra week to fix SRE bugs! :-)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)