[Python] running pip install from python 2.7.5

I have a CentOS server (5.6) which has Python 2.4.3 on it. I have another local installation of Python (2.7.5) installed in /opt and soft-links created as follows /usr/local/bin/python2.7 and /usr/local/python2.7. I want to install python-requests using pip. While installing using the command pip install requests, I get the following error:

root ~/ff_test_ff # pip install requests
Unpacking ./requests
Running setup.py egg_info for package from file:///root/ff_test_ff/requests
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 14, in ?
File "/tmp/pip-MM685m-build/setup.py", line 6, in ?
import requests
File "requests/__init__.py", line 58
from . import utils
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):

File "<string>", line 14, in ?

File "/tmp/pip-MM685m-build/setup.py", line 6, in ?

import requests

File "requests/__init__.py", line 58

from . import utils

^

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

----------------------------------------
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1
Storing complete log in /root/.pip/pip.log


I'm assuming it's still trying to use Python 2.4. I checked here which says 2.4 isn't supported. So how do I run the pip install command but use python2.7 instead?

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