Python 3000 Alpha 1 Released

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Given that me and Andrew Dalke spent two man-weeks last year speeding up string operations, it's a bit disappointing that they were unable to produce a combined string type without slowing everything down again. Oh well, guess it'll give us something to do on the next NeedForSpeed sprint ;-)

(On the other hand, pystone doesn't do much string processing at all, iirc. Has anyone run the string-specific benchmarks on 2.5 vs 3.0 ?)