How to make ubuntu 14.04 default to python 2.7.10?

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Alexander Krasnov2015-07-09 16:36:53

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Alexander Krasnov, 2015-07-09 16:36:53

Hello!
Recently moved from win7 to ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
Faced that after sudo apt-get upgrade python 2.7.6 and I need 2.7.10.
https://renoirboulanger.com/blog/2015/04/upgrade-p... - followed the instructions and now I have python 2.7.10 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7.10/bin/python.
And how to make .10 run by default?

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Stanislav Fateev, 2015-07-09
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The most correct way is to use virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper. It's very simple - one command creates an environment. In your case:

mkvirtualenv --python=/usr/local/lib/python2.7.10/bin/python

You can run any version with any packages, leaving the system alone. Using the system python for your projects is bad, because if there are a lot of projects, and for each you need different pythons or versions of the same django, why reinstall the system python every time?