Python 1.5.x vs Python 2.x.x

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 13-Dec-2001 Angus Mackay wrote:
> there seems to be lots of stuff that refrences python 1.5.x or requires it
> but
> he www.python.org website doesn't mention it at all.
> 
> what is the deal?
> 
> what are people using? it seems to me that python doesn't handle versioning
> at
> all well under windows, if I build a module agains python 2.1 it wont work
> under
> a python 2.2 interpreter at all?
> 

for the most part python modules from 1.5 work under 2.x but not vice versa. 
Compiled modules are dependent on the version of python they were compiled
against.