Bryan Østergaard (see below for his portrait) announces that python-2.4 will be unmasked on Wednesday, 8 June. It's been masked for a long time to allow for proper testing and bugfixing. The Python herd members are now confident that there are no major bugs left. Details of what's new in Python-2.4 can be found at the official Python website.
Please note that only ~arch users will be affected by the unmasking, and please remember to run the python-updater after updating Python to remerge all modules as neccessary. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20050606-newsletter.xml