How to check all versions of python installed on osx and centos

Question

I just started setting up a centos server today and noticed that the default version of python on centos is set to 2.6.6. I want to use python 2.7 instead. I googled around and

Answer 1

As someone mentioned in a comment, you can use which python if it is supported by CentOS. Another command that could work is whereis python. In the event neither of these work, you can start the Python interpreter, and it will show you the version, or you could look in /usr/bin for the Python files (python, python3 etc).