Yeah, one issue with CentOS/Redhat was that yum required Python 2.4 so you had to keep it around and install python 2.7 as python27. Thankfully Python makes it

Yeah, one issue with CentOS/Redhat was that yum required Python 2.4 so you had to keep it around and install python 2.7 as python27. Thankfully Python makes it easy to run applications in a virtual environment so you can install different versions of libraries into the virtualenv without worrying about breaking things somewhere else.