the correct way to install python packages as non root user in non default path

[alex23]

On Apr 21, 8:32 am, News123 <news... at free.fr> wrote:
> I'm having an Ubuntu host, but want to (experimentally)
> install some modules, which are newer than the Ubuntu ones
> (distros lag always a little behind and some tools need newer versions.)
>
> What would be a clean way to do this?

I think virtualenv will help you here: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv