redhat 7.1 linux upgrade of Python 1.52 to 2.0

[David Phoon]

hi

has anybody done the above. (upgrade python 1.52 to 2.x in Redhat linux
7.1)
I tried downloading and upgrading the  python-2.2-1.i386.rpm package,
and upgrading the current 1.52 to this latest version.
However it complains after typing  $rpm -U python-2.2-1.i386.rpm    :
  error: failed dependencies:
        libcrypto.so.2   is needed by python-2.2-1
        libdb-3.2.so   is needed by python-2.2-1
        libreadline.so.4   is needed by python-2.2-1
        libssl.so.2   is needed by python-2.2-1
        libc.so.6(GCC_3.0)   is needed by python-2.2-1
        python = 1.5.2 is needed by tkinter-1.5.2-30
        python = 1.5.2 is needed by python-devel-1.5.2-30
        python = 1.5.2 is needed by python-tools-1.5.2-30


this tells me for one GCC_3.0 is needed. The current interpreter  shows
2.96 GCC.
could someone tell me if there is a relatively stable version of
python2.0 that i can download using 2.96 GCC. I need
to use python 2.x for unicode and chinese native to unicode conversion


david