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Python2.7, Pip, Virtualenv Installation on Mac or Linux machines for the current user without sudo access
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I will show the steps using Python2.7.13 If you download a newer version it should work similarly.

cd ~
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.13/Python-2.7.13.tgz
tar -xzvf Python-2.7.13.tgz
cd Python-2.7.13
./configure 
make altinstall prefix=~/.local/

The configure and make step takes few minutes. Now python 2.7 would be present in ~/.local/bin Add this to PATH

export PATH=~/.local/bin:$PATH
python2.7  # should work fine

It is a good idea to add the export statement to ~/.bashrc file to load at login. You can also create a soft-link to python2.7 so that python command gives you 2.7

cd ~/.local/bin; ln -s python2.7 python

Lets talk about installing pip. Download the get-pip.py file and install it for the current user. It will leave pip and pip2.7 executables in ~/.local/bin.

cd ~
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
~/.local/bin/python2.7 get-pip.py --user
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