RELEASED Python 3.0rc3

On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I  
am happy to announce the third and last planned release candidate for  
Python 3.0.

This is a release candidate, so while it is not quite suitable for  
production environments, we strongly encourage you to download and  
test this release on your software.  We expect only critical bugs to  
be fixed between now and the final release, currently planned for 03- 
Dec-2008.

If you find things broken or incorrect, please submit bug reports at

    http://bugs.python.org

Please read the RELNOTES file in the distribution for important  
details about this release.  For more information and downloadable  
distributions, see the Python 3.0 website:

    http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/

See PEP 361 for release schedule details:

    http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/

Enjoy,
-Barry

Barry Warsaw
barry <at> python.org