On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 4:32 PM, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 4:25 PM, Clint Dilks <clintd at scms.waikato.ac.nz> wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 10:09 AM, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 8:22 AM, Pete Biggs <pete at biggs.org.uk> wrote: >>> > On Tue, 2017-12-05 at 14:16 +0100, Kai Grunau wrote: >>> >> On 05.12.2017 14:05, Larry Martell wrote: >>> >> > I am running CentOS 7 and I have python version: >>> >> > >>> >> > Python 2.7.5 (default, Sep 15 2016, 22:37:39) >>> >> > >>> >> > I need a newer version of 2.7 to pick up a bug fix. How can I do that >>> >> > (without breaking anything in CentOS)? >>> >> >>> >> you could use the anaconda software, it is independent of the OS >>> >> regards >>> >> >>> >> >>> > >>> > Or use Software Collections, the Python27 package from there has 2.7.13 >>> > >>> > https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/python27/ >>> > >>> > https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/SCL >>> >>> I followed the instructions at the first link and I still only seem to >>> have 2.7.5. How can I specify a newer version? > >> Hi, perhaps reading https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/ and >> https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/python27/ will help. >> >> Have you done scl enable python27 bash in your current shell? > > Thanks. Missed that. Now I do get 7.5.13 but it seems I have to type > that command in each new shell. Can I make that the default python? I > want django and uWSGI to use that version. After I issue the command scl enable python27 bash, and my python is then 2.7.13, when I run pip will it use 2.17.13 to build what I am downloading?