As Skip pointed out to me privately, there are some minor limitations with this version. E.g.:
% python
>>> import glob
>>> import sys
>>> print 'hello'
hello
>>> print 2+2
4
>>> print 2*2
Unhandled exception: run-time error: integer overflow
Stack backtrace (innermost last):
File "<stdin>", line 1
Huh. I wonder what's different about my build:
$ /usr/local/cpython-0.9/bin/python
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>>> 2*2
4
>>> print 2*2
4
>>>
It includes all the tarballs you should need, at least for Debian. I believe I used it on CentOS recently as well. I haven't tried it on Ubuntu in a while.
HTH