CentOS 6 install Python 2.7

# Python 2.7.6:

$ wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7/Python-2.7.tgz

$ tar zxf Python-2.7.tgz

$ cd Python-2.7.6

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-unicode=ucs4 --enable-shared LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath /usr/local/lib"

# make && make altinstall

 

# First get the setup script for Setuptools:

$ wget https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py

 

# Then install it for Python 2.7

# python2.7 ez_setup.py

 

# Now install pip using the newly installed setuptools:

# easy_install-2.7 pip

 

 

 

 

References :

How to install Python 2.7 and Python 3.3 on CentOS 6 

Python 2.7 Release