Updating for 2.6a2
diff --git a/Include/patchlevel.h b/Include/patchlevel.h
index e5b8a2f..ff618f1 100644
--- a/Include/patchlevel.h
+++ b/Include/patchlevel.h
@@ -19,14 +19,16 @@
 					/* Higher for patch releases */
 
 /* Version parsed out into numeric values */
+/*--start constants--*/
 #define PY_MAJOR_VERSION	2
 #define PY_MINOR_VERSION	6
 #define PY_MICRO_VERSION	0
 #define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL	PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_ALPHA
-#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL	1
+#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL	2
 
 /* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION		"2.6a1+"
+#define PY_VERSION      	"2.6a2"
+/*--end constants--*/
 
 /* Subversion Revision number of this file (not of the repository) */
 #define PY_PATCHLEVEL_REVISION  "$Revision$"
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/__init__.py b/Lib/distutils/__init__.py
index 8c954c2..d0dd03a 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/__init__.py
@@ -20,4 +20,7 @@
 # In general, major and minor version should loosely follow the Python
 # version number the distutils code was shipped with.
 #
-__version__ = "2.6.0"
+
+#--start constants--
+__version__ = "2.6a2"
+#--end constants--
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py b/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py
index 76cf619..308e33f 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-IDLE_VERSION = "2.6a1"
+IDLE_VERSION = "2.6a2"
diff --git a/Misc/RPM/python-2.6.spec b/Misc/RPM/python-2.6.spec
index 73eba56..b7f7241 100644
--- a/Misc/RPM/python-2.6.spec
+++ b/Misc/RPM/python-2.6.spec
@@ -33,8 +33,10 @@
 #################################
 
 %define name python
-%define version 2.6a1
-%define libvers 2.6
+#--start constants--
+%define version 2.6a2
+%define libver 2.6
+#--end constants--
 %define release 1pydotorg
 %define __prefix /usr
 
diff --git a/README b/README
index 2ae630f..5523ad8 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This is Python version 2.6 alpha 1
+This is Python version 2.6 alpha 2
 ==================================
 
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