I didn’t have a chance to post on Friday, but I was able to install a local version of Python 2.7.  I unzipped the most recent release, ran the configure command with the prefix set to my $Home\local directory.  I had to create the local directory.  I ran the “make” and “make install” commands.  This installed to the folder and created the python directory downstream.  The upgrade is supposed to be better for performance, but more importantly, I now have my own site_packages folder for installing modules.  Time will tell if I can hook cgi up to this installation over the default installation.