Python 1.6 alpha 1 released

[Robin Becker]

In article <200003312130.QAA04361 at eric.cnri.reston.va.us>, Guido van
Rossum <guido at python.org> writes
>I've just released a source tarball and a Windows installer for Python
>1.6 alpha 1 to the Python website:
>
>  http://www.python.org/1.6/
>
>Probably the biggest news (if you hadn't heard the rumors) is Unicode
>support.  More news on the above webpage.
>
>Note: this is an alpha release.  Some of the code is very rough!
>Please give it a try with your favorite Python application, but don't
>trust it for production use yet.  I plan to release several more alpha
>and beta releases over the next two months, culminating in an 1.6
>final release around June first.
>
>We need your help to make the final 1.6 release as robust as possible
>-- please test this alpha release!!!
>
>--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
>
I see from the download info that python now seems to require
installation of it's own Tkinter. Can I inhibit this at install time and
continue to use my own version? I'm quite prepared for some problems of
getting it to work, but the whole point of having Tcl/Tk is that it is
extensible and I doubt very much whether an arbitrary version will work
with all the Tcl extensions I currently have. Blt for example is still
issued by the author in version specific form.
-- 
Robin Becker