Brian Quinlan wrote: > 1. You can try to rebuild Python with MSVC5 (probably won't work > though) it works just fine. > (but the binary will not be compatible with everyone's Python). really? I've shipped VC5 built extensions for official 1.5.2, 1.6, 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2 distributions, and nobody has ever reported any compatibility problems... </F>