Python release delay

[Guido van Rossum]

CNRI's Bob Kahn has this message for the Python user community:

> "As a result of the recent transition of the Core Python development
> activity from CNRI to BeOpen, a number of issues have arisen that CNRI and
> BeOpen are in the process of working out. As soon as these are resolved,
> which we hope will be very shortly, we plan to have the final version of
> Python 1.6 available for download. We apologize for this delay, but
> hopefully, it will not last long and will ultimately put the future python
> evolution on a more solid foundation. In the meantime, BeOpen and CNRI will
> also be working together on updates to the python.org website, and bug
> reports, patches and other contributions to Python 1.6 should continue to
> be submitted to CNRI following the procedures posted at the python.org site."

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