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I have 2 python instance on a CentOS machine, i.e. /usr/bin/python2.4 and /usr/bin/python2.7.

Modules for 2.4 are in /usr/lib/python2.4, and modules for 2.7 are in /usr/local/python27.

When I do yum install numpy, which I want to install for python2.7, it automatically install for python2.4.

How can I appoint which instance to install modules for with yum, easy_install and pip?

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Your yum probably only has packages for the Python version that is used by the OS (it is possible to share, package-manager installed, native python modules between different versions but it is more difficult to configure).

The best option for you is install pip for your /usr/local/python27 by downloading get-pip.py as per the manual and then running it with the python2.7 executable:

python2.7 get-pip.py

You only have to this once, and this will give you a command pip2.7 which you can use to install any package from PyPI into the Python 2.7 setup.

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