READ THIS ARTICLE IF YOU WANT PYTHON 2.7.10:

http://sowingseasons.com/blog/building-python-2-7-10-on-raspberry-pi-2.html

Source: http://toomuchdata.com/2014/02/16/how-to-install-python-on-centos/

yum groupinstall "Development tools"

yum install zlib-devel bzip2-devel openssl-devel ncurses-devel sqlite-devel readline-devel tk-devel gdbm-devel db4-devel libpcap-devel xz-devel

wget http://python.org/ftp/python/2.7.6/Python-2.7.6.tar.xz

tar xf Python-2.7.6.tar.xz

cd Python-2.7.6

./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-unicode=ucs4 --enable-shared LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath /usr/local/lib"

make && make altinstall

wget https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py

python2.7 ez_setup.py

easy_install-2.7 pip

/usr/local/bin/python2.7

I would recommend reading the following article to understand more https://github.com/h2oai/h2o-2/wiki/Installing-python-2.7-on-centos-6.3.-Follow-this-sequence-exactly-for-centos-machine-only