Question

All I want to do is run a Python script that requires Python 2.7 & Requests on my Ubuntu 10.04 EC2 box.
I installed Python 2.7, no problem. “python” by itself still points to python 2.6, which is very annoying, b/c I’m not sure how ubuntu will freak if I change the symlink /usr/bin/python to point to 2.7.

I followed the (carefully buried) install instructions for pip (at http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/index.html, and which are WAY too hard to find if they aren’t the ABSOLUTE FIRST command on the “install pip” page)

So, the real problem here is that pip install requests completes successfully, but only installs for python 2.6, not 2.7. The pip usage instructions say nothing about how to install a package for a specific version of python.

How do I do this?

I just want to run my python script that requires 2.7 + requests.

Answer 1

First install pip for your 2.7 distribution using easy_install (easy_install should definitely be included with your 2.7 distribution):

easy_install-2.7 -U pip

Then install what you need:

pip-2.7 install requests

Then you can run code with python2.7 instead of python.