I will be away until June 10 (in Illinois). I'll try to read me mails from
time to time, but don't rely on reactions.
In urgent cases, please feel free to NMU.
There are preliminary, very experimental Python 2.1 packages in
http://people.debian.org/~flight/python2/
Those aren't yet for public consumption; they won't install on your
testing/unstable system if you have any other Python dependent packages
installed.
Gregor