problems with sf cvs server?

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Ben Wolfson wrote:

> Is anyone else experiencing trouble checking the python source tree
> out of the sf cvs server?  I hang forever here:
> 
> cvs server: Updating python/nondist/src/Compiler/tests/output

pserver access on SF suffers from being severly overloaded at the
moment. If all you want is a snaphot of the HEAD revision (and only
of the dist/src subtree), you can find such snapshot at

http://www.dcl.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/home/loewis/python.tgz

Regards,
Martin