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Working with multiple python installations

I had an existing installation of python2.3
But I wanted to work with the Python Graph library NetworkX  which however works only with Python2.6 and above.
Unfortunately, I didn't have sudo privileges and hence could install python only within my local directory.

The following stack overflow link turned out to be of great help in installing a newer python version and further to install NetworkX within it.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/622744/unable-to-install-python-without-sudo-access

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