[gdal-dev] Python 1.6 bindings under Windows

[Markus Reinhold]

Dear all,
I'm pretty sure it has been asked before, however I wasn't able to find 
an answer to my question in the archive, so please bear with me...
I'm using a number of oss geo tools under Windows using the OSGeo4W 
binary distribution. I have installed the 1.6-version of GDAL and can 
find it under c:\osgeo4w\apps\gdal-16. This directory also includes the 
Python bindings that I want to use instead of my current ones. Now I'm 
stuck on how to achieve this. The usual *from osgeo import gdal* always 
supplies me with the current 1.5-version of the bindings, so I somehow 
suspect that I have to tell Python to prefer the 1.6-pymod directory 
over the one it usually uses - but how so?
A second question that is related to the first one: Is there any way to 
check the version of the bindings that have been imported by a script - 
anything analogous to "--version" on the command line?
I'd appreciate any help.
Thank you in advance.
Regards,
Markus