RELEASED: Python 2.2.1c1

[Michael Hudson]

We've released a release candidate for the next bugfix release of Python, 
2.2.1.

Get the scoop (and the files) here:

    http://www.python.org/2.2.1/

In order to make 2.2.1 a solid release, please help by

+ Building the release, and running the test suite on your platform.
+ Building your extension modules and applications against this
  release, and running *their* test suites.
+ Reporting any problems to the bug tracker at sf:

    http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=5470

This being a bugfix release, there are no exciting new features -- we just
fixed a lot of bugs.  For a moderately complete list, please see:

    http://http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=80208

Depending on how many problems are found in this release, 2.2.1 final or a
second release candidate will follow next week.

Extra note for keenies:

One of the bugs addressed in this release relates to the behaviour of
floating point numbers with respect to under- and over-flow.  This has
traditionally been an obscure platform-dependent mess.  To make sure that
this is still the case, I would ask those of you with access to the more
unusual platforms (i.e. not Linux/x86, Win32/x86) to run test_math in
verbose mode and *email me* the results, including details of platform and
OS tested.  Thanks.

Cheers,
The Python development team.