Update Python2.4 to 2.7

[Donasio]

Does anyone know how to update python2.4 to 2.7 without removin 2.4

[daark.child]

If you are going to be building Python from source, you could just install Python 2.7 into its own dorectory e.g. /usr/local/python27.

[coopstah13]

Especially on red hat, you shouldn't update 2.4 to 2.7, because yum is highly dependent on the python that was shipped with it

You can safely do what daark.child suggested and build from source, and just install to a different location. Just make sure you do not update the python and python2 symlinks to point to that one.

[Donasio]

But I use Python2.7 to install someting it says:
python2.7 setup.py install
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 11, in <module>
from setuptools import setup, find_packages
ImportError: No module named setuptools

Its ok if I use python.

does that mean I have to configure python2.7 to point to setuptools......if so how can I do it