I've made a prerelease of the Windows installer available through the python.org/1.6 webpage (the link is in the paragraph *below* the a1 downloads). This is mostly to give Mark Hammond an opportunity to prepare win32all build 131, to deal with the changed location of the python16.dll file. Hey, it's still alpha software! --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)