release.py induced and manual editing steps for 3.0a4.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/__init__.py b/Lib/distutils/__init__.py
index 0c3d939..b583e39 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/__init__.py
@@ -18,4 +18,7 @@
 # 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__ = "3.0a4"
+#--end constants--