once we're post-release, we really need to bump the version number;

the documentation build gets the version number from here as well, and
the script that updates www.python.org/dev/doc/ needs to get an
updated version number

Include/patchlevel.h

@@ -21,12 +21,12 @@
 /* Version parsed out into numeric values */
 #define PY_MAJOR_VERSION	2
 #define PY_MINOR_VERSION	4
-#define PY_MICRO_VERSION	0
-#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL	PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_FINAL
+#define PY_MICRO_VERSION	1
+#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL	PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_ALPHA
 #define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL	0
 
 /* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION		"2.4+"
+#define PY_VERSION		"2.4.1a0"
 
 /* Version as a single 4-byte hex number, e.g. 0x010502B2 == 1.5.2b2.
    Use this for numeric comparisons, e.g. #if PY_VERSION_HEX >= ... */