[CentOS] upgrading python

Mon Dec 11 21:09:10 UTC 2017
Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com>

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?