you can do this without recompiling! The version string is used is embedded in a resource, so you can patch it using some kind of resource editor. Mark Hammond planned it this way!
I don't understand this. Is there documentation?
Vague documentation at http://www.python.org/windows/python/registry.html Doesnt explicitely say much about this particular issue, and if I remember I will update it. VC will allow you to edit these resources without rebuilding - simply open the DLL, but select "Resources" as the file type. I havent investigated other resource editors as I have MSVC :-) Greg pointed you to the win32api functions - they do work, as Greg provided code that uses them (the code he pointed at was done by him) - although I never actually worked out how to make them work ( I spent about an hour trying to get code to re-stamp the Python15.dll with a new sys.winver, and gave up. Would be cool to get going tho... Mark.