RELEASED Python 2.6a3 and 3.0a5

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On May 9, 7:55 pm, Stéphane Larouche <stephane.larou... at polymtl.ca>
wrote:
> > On 9 Mai, 01:50, Barry Warsaw <ba... at python.org> wrote:
> > > On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I
> > > am happy to announce the third alpha release of Python 2.6, and the
> > > fifth alpha release of Python 3.0.
>
> After I installer Python 2.6a3, Matlab R2007a began having problems. When I
> start Matlab, it shows a window indicating that it is installing Microsoft
> Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable, which fails, and then Matlab closes. This
> problem did not happen with Python 2.6a2 and removing Python 2.6a3 solves the
> problem.
>
> Is anybody else having the same problem? Do you know what causes it? Is there a
> workaround?

That one might be a true, "Don't stampede the Python."  Numbers have
been known grow.  (...not that the numbers do.)  Bread and butter, new
butter.