> Because upgrading Python is either painful or nearly impossible... It's not actually that difficult. You need not upgrade your python. You just need one more

> Because upgrading Python is either painful or nearly impossible... It's not actually that difficult. You need not upgrade your python. You just need one more python. I have been successfully using this setup on RHEL 5 and Ubuntu. And you can couple it with virtualenv and pip to have a sandbox. I would say it has become standard practice in the python dev community.