Yeah, they have a 'tech support' contact on their website, but this isn't really that kind of request. So just in case somebody from CL reads here: Is there any way to use the latest version of Python with Poser? I've been working on some PY scripts that involve opening files, and I seem to be hitting a strange bug. According to some Python-related web pages, this same bug seems to have been spotted in non-Poser situations using Python 1.5, and was fixed in later Python versions. So, can you think of any way, short of a complete revision, to make Poser use PYTHON22.DLL instead of PYTHON15.DLL? I tried simply renaming the 22 file so it appeared to be 15, but that didn't work; must be some internal signature or something.

I asked CL about switching up to Python 2.0 for Poser 5. They are aware of the request. I was told that part of the reason that they used 1.52 was that 2.0 wasn't mature enough when they started the poser interface. I was told that there is some coding inside the main poser executable that helps set up the python interface. So, you couldn't just switch out the DLL's. In any event, you'd probably also need to swap out all the other poser files in the python folder.

Ah. Thanks for responding, and a very clear explanation. I thought it was something like that. Maybe CL can make Poser 5 more flexible in this respect, so that new versions of Python can be imported simply by switching the DLL.