easy_install gets wrong pip version

Question

I have been following the instructions on http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/starting/install/osx/ but for some reason this is not going as I believe it would be expected.

I have python 2.7 running by default but had to get easy_install up-to-date by following the instructions on: https://superuser.com/questions/256717/easy-install-the-wrong-version-of-python-modules-mac-os and link it from /usr/local/bin/share to /usr/local/bin. It seems to be working fine.

The problem is that now when I install pip it seems to install to 2.6 and not 2.7.

    darky:~ user$ easy_install --upgrade pip
    Searching for pip
    Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pip/
    Reading http://pip.openplans.org
    Reading http://www.pip-installer.org
    Best match: pip 1.1
    Processing pip-1.1-py2.6.egg
    pip 1.1 is already the active version in easy-install.pth
    Installing pip script to /usr/local/bin
    Installing pip-2.6 script to /usr/local/bin

    Using /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/pip-1.1-py2.6.egg
    Processing dependencies for pip
    Finished processing dependencies for pip

After the comments from MartijnPieters this problem NO LONGER persists

    darky:~ user$ /usr/local/share/python/easy_install-2.7 pip
    Searching for pip
    Best match: pip 1.1
    Processing pip-1.1-py2.7.egg
    pip 1.1 is already the active version in easy-install.pth
    Installing pip script to /usr/local/share/python
    Installing pip-2.7 script to /usr/local/share/python
    Using /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.1-py2.7.egg
    Processing dependencies for pip
    Finished processing dependencies for pip
    darky:~ user$ pip install virtualenv --upgrade
    Requirement already up-to-date: virtualenv in /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages
    Cleaning up...

But pip still creates environments with python-2.6. So I have to point it to the proper pyhton interpreter.

    darky:pytravisci pedrorodrigues$ virtualenv --python=/usr/local/bin/python2.7 ENV
    Running virtualenv with interpreter /usr/local/bin/python2.7
    New python executable in ENV/bin/python
    Installing setuptools............................done.
    Installing pip...............done.

Answer 1

You can use

easy_install-2.7

or if you don't have that alias:

python2.7 -m easy_install <stuff>

For pip:

pip2.7