Anyone familiar with building python modules?

We've got a user who needs pandas 10 - he says that there was a memory handling issue that kills him in the lower releases. My counterpart (the humanoid one <g>) says that it seems to want to build against python 2.7, rather than the CentOS 2.6.6. Plus, of course, there are the dependencies....

1. Are there any tarball installs? 2. Alternatively, are there any src rpms?

I haven't found any so far....

Thanks in advance.

mark