On the command line, I can see

PS C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.43.34808\bin\Hostx64\x86> ./cl /?
Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 19.43.34809 for x86

Notice that the version in the directory (14.43) and the version of CL itself (19.43) are not the same.

When someone says "Visual C++ version 14.x", as in Python Windows Compilers, which version is it talking about? Would this version of the compiler be the right one to compile Python?