Irit Katriel added the comment:
2.7 is no longer being maintained and the installer has been completely
rewritten in the meantime.
Please create a new issue if you are having problems with a current version of
python (3.9+). Ideally in this case, also include more information about which
s
New submission from Jon Ribbens:
If you are installing Python 2.7.10 and a previous version of 2.7 was already
installed, the installation processs can fail when compileall.py finds
badly-written third-party modules in the site-packages or dist-packages
directories.
The installation process s