Install with setuptools
with one or two steps: python setup.py build
and python setup.py install
. To uninstall follow the SO question here, which suggests
python setup.py install --record files.txt
cat files.txt | xargs rm -rf
RedHat has a thing called software collections that lets other versions of Python (and other languages or databases) be installed.
yum install python27
scl enable python27 bash
which python