liaops@AY1306111015016020afZ:/media/data/liaops/download$ uname -a
Linux AY1306111015016020afZ 3.2.0-29-generic #
46-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 27 17:03:23 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

liaops@AY1306111015016020afZ:/media/data/liaops/download$ 
wget http://www.Python.org/ftp/python/2.7.5/Python-2.7.5.tar.bz2

liaops@AY1306111015016020afZ:/media/data/liaops/download$ cd out/
liaops@AY1306111015016020afZ:/media/data/liaops/download/out$ tar xvjf ../Python-2.7.5.tar.bz2

liaops@AY1306111015016020afZ:/media/data/liaops/download/out$ cd Python-2.7.5/
liaops@AY1306111015016020afZ:/media/data/liaops/download/out/Python-2.7.5$ ./configure

liaops@AY1306111015016020afZ:/media/data/liaops/download/out/Python-2.7.5$ make

liaops@AY1306111015016020afZ:/media/data/liaops/download/out/Python-2.7.5$ ./python
Python 2.7.5 (default, Jun 29 2013, 13:03:32)
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> print "Hello World!"
Hello World!
>>> 1234 * 4321
5332114
>>> import datetime
>>> print datetime.datetime.now()
2013-06-29 13:29:44.838243

>>>exit()

liaops@AY1306111015016020afZ:/media/data/liaops/download/out/Python-2.7.5$