Installing python and django

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sudo yum install gcc tcl tk sqlite-devel readline-devel gdbm-devel -y
sudo yum install tkinter ncurses-devel libdbi-devel tk-devel zlib-devel -y
sudo yum install openssl-devel bzip2-devel -y
sudo yum install httpd httpd-devel -y
sudo yum install mysql mysql-devel -y
wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.3/Python-2.7.3.tgz
tar zxvf Python-2.7.3.tgz
cd Python-2.7.3
sudo ./configure --prefix=/opt/python2.7 --with-threads --enable-shared
make
sudo make install
ln -s /opt/python2.7/bin/python /usr/bin/python2.7
echo '/opt/python2.7/lib'>> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/opt-python2.7.conf
ldconfig
echo "alias python='/opt/python2.7/bin/python'" >> /etc/bashrc
echo "alias python2.7='/opt/python2.7/bin/python'" >> /etc/bashrc
***log out and log back in at this point. This is to ensure your bash rpofie is updated with the new python location***
wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg
sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg
wget http://modwsgi.googlecode.com/files/mod_wsgi-3.3.tar.gz
tar zxvf mod_wsgi-3.3.tar.gz
cd mod_wsgi-3.3
./configure --with-python=/opt/python2.7/bin/python
make
make install
curl http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py | python
curl https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py | python
pip install Django