We have a broken hard drive on the machine that is www.python.org. CNRI claims there is no spare drive. It may be a while before we resolve this. In the mean time, here's a mirror: http://mirrors.ccs.neu.edu/Python/www.python.org/ Here's a list of mirrors: http://mirrors.ccs.neu.edu/Python/www.python.org/Mirrors.html --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)