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On 08/02/2010 05:53 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Updating python to 2.6.5_p20100801 will break portage.  emerge will stop
> working after that and there's no information on how to recover from
> that right now (because emerge won't work, you can't downgrade to the
> previous, working python version.)
> 
> Bug for this issue: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330937

/usr/bin/python3.1 emerge =lang-python/python-2.6.5-r3

Assuming of course you've got python3.1 installed in another slot.