Pip doesn't update to latest python version

Question

Python is on version 2.7.3, but when i try to upgrade python through "pip" i get this:

$ pip install --upgrade python
Requirement already up-to-date: python in /usr/lib64/python2.6/lib-dynload
Cleaning up...

any suggestions?

Answer 1

pip installs python packages, not python itself.

Changing a system python version is a bad idea. To install an additional python version system-wide you could use your system package manager such as apt-get .

To manage personal python installations you could use pythonz .