[CentOS] how to use python 2.7 by default instead python 2.6 on centos 6.8

[Jon LaBadie]

On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 11:26:25AM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jul 2016, John Hodrien wrote:
> > On Mon, 4 Jul 2016, qw wrote:
> > 
> > > centos 6.8 comes with python 2.6. But I want to use python 2.7 to build
> > > gstreamer sdk. I have built python 2.7 and installed it into my custom
> > > directory. How to set centos to use python 2.7 by default instead of python
> > > 2.6?
> > 
> > Don't.  If you try to swap out the standard python with another one, expect
> > almost everything you hold dear to break.
> 
Not a python programmer, so forgive my ignorance.

On my Fedora system python 2.7 and 3.? peacefully co-exist.
And I thought 2.6 and 2.7 did as well.

The python manpage lists a couple of environment variables
related to version.

Could you have both installed and when building or testing
set your environment to the desired version?

jon
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