Quick update to the README file. For intros and books we now point to

the website.

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@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-This is Python version 1.5.2 -- released April 13, 1999
-=======================================================
+This is Python version 1.6 -- released March 31, 2000
+=====================================================
 
 
 What's new in this release?
 ---------------------------
 
-See the Misc/NEWS file.
+See http://www.python.org/1.6/.
 
 
 If you don't read instructions
@@ -45,40 +45,11 @@ How do I learn Python?
 ----------------------
 
 The official tutorial is still a good place to start; see
-http://www.python.org/doc/ for online and downloadable versions.
-Aaron Watters wrote a second tutorial, that may be more accessible for
-some: http://www.networkcomputing.com/unixworld/tutorial/005/005.html.
-Both tutorials (as well as most other sources) assume that you already
-know how to program -- if you'd like to write "Python for Dummies", I
-know a publisher who would like to talk to you...
-
-There are now also several books on Python.  The first book is the
-most recent and covers Python 1.5.X.  The other two books, both
-first published in October 1996 and both including a CD-ROM, form
-excellent companions to each other.  Though these two are still based
-on Python 1.3 or 1.4, the information in them is still 99% correct.
-
-       Learning Python
-       by Mark Lutz and David Ascher
-       O'Reilly & Associates
-       ISBN: 1-56592-464-9
-
-       Internet Programming with Python
-       by Aaron Watters, Guido van Rossum, and James Ahlstrom
-       MIS Press/Henry Holt publishers
-       ISBN: 1-55851-484-8
-
-       Programming Python
-       by Mark Lutz
-       O'Reilly & Associates
-       ISBN: 1-56592-197-6
-
-If you can read German, try:
-
-       Das Python-Buch
-       by Martin von Loewis and Nils Fischbeck
-       Addison-Wesley-Longman, 1997
-       ISBN: 3-8273-1110-1
+http://www.python.org/doc/ for online and downloadable versions, as
+well as a list of other introductions, and reference documentation.
+
+There's a quickly growing set of books on Python.  See
+http://www.python.org/psa/bookstore/ for a list.
 
 
 Copyright issues
@@ -492,18 +463,18 @@ platform-specific files in subdirectories if the directory given by
 
 All subdirectories created will have Python's version number in their
 name, e.g. the library modules are installed in
-"/usr/local/lib/python1.5/" by default.  The Python binary is
-installed as "python1.5" and a hard link named "python" is created.
+"/usr/local/lib/python1.6/" by default.  The Python binary is
+installed as "python1.6" and a hard link named "python" is created.
 The only file not installed with a version number in its name is the
 manual page, installed as "/usr/local/man/man1/python.1" by default.
 
-If you have a previous installation of a pre-1.5 Python that you don't
+If you have a previous installation of a pre-1.6 Python that you don't
 want to replace yet, use
 
        make altinstall
 
 This installs the same set of files as "make install" except it
-doesn't create the hard link to "python1.5" named "python" and it
+doesn't create the hard link to "python1.6" named "python" and it
 doesn't install the manual page at all.
 
 The only thing you may have to install manually is the Python mode for
@@ -856,7 +827,7 @@ config.cache    cache of configuration variables
 config.h        Configuration header
 config.log      Log from last configure run
 config.status   Status from last run of configure script
-libpython1.5.a The library archive
+libpython1.6.a The library archive
 python          The executable interpreter
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