yum -y install gcc gdbm-devel readline-devel ncurses-devel zlib-devel bzip2-devel sqlite-devel db4-devel openssl-devel tk-devel bluez-libs-devel make

cd /var/tmp
wget http://sqlite.org/sqlite-amalgamation-3.7.3.tar.gz
tar xfz sqlite-amalgamation-3.7.3.tar.gz
cd sqlite-3.7.3/
./configure
make
make install

cd /var/tmp
wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.1/Python-2.7.1.tgz
tar xvfz Python-2.7.1.tgz
cd Python-2.7.1
./configure --prefix=/opt/python2.7.1 --with-threads --enable-shared
make
make install

touch /etc/ld.so.conf.d/opt-python2.7.1.conf
echo "/opt/python2.7.1/lib/" >> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/opt-python2.7.1.conf
ldconfig

ln -sf /opt/python2.7.1/bin/python /usr/bin/python2.7

cd /var/tmp
wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg
sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg --prefix=/opt/python2.7.1

/opt/python2.7.1/bin/easy_install pip
ln -sf /opt/python2.7.1/bin/pip /usr/bin/pip

pip install virtualenv
ln -sf /opt/python2.7.1/bin/virtualenv /usr/bin/virtualenv

mv /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python-backup
ln -s /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/pyt