Wherefore art thou, 1.6?

[Manus Hand]

As I assume we all know, there is nothing but an unlinked "Python 1.6"
at python.org.  I was curious about this, but thought it a temporary
condition.  That was a while ago, though....

So I did a quick deja.com search through c.l.p to see if I could get
an explanation.  All I found was someone asking three weeks ago and
getting, well, no answer.

Can someone please post a status on 1.6?

Thanks,
Manus (who is using [and loves] 1.6a2 and lives in fear that the 1.6
release was for some reason decided against in the alpha stage)