Getting Python 2.6 installed

Hi all,
I'm in the process of installing Arch Linux to move away from Gentoo. A number of programs I am using require Python 2.6 (they haven't yet been upgraded to 2.7/3.x) so I'm trying to work out how to install Python 2.6. Under Gentoo there are "slots" so you can have as many different versions as you want installed, and the main binary is just a symlink to the version you want to use at the time, so I'm hoping I can do something similar with Arch.
Following the 'downgrading' guide on the wiki I have found a package for python-2.6.5, but I am a little worried as the package name is "python" rather than "python2" - so I think if I install it, it will remove python3 (which is just called "python" under Arch, although this seems to be nonstandard so I'm a little unsure.)
Does anyone know if it's possible to install Python 2.6, while leaving Python 2.7 and 3.2 available for the system to use? What command would I use to change the version run by the "python" command, like under Gentoo?
Thanks!

Ah ok my bad, as I was pasting the errors in I realised that with python2 it was complaining about errors in the .pyc files that were hanging around from my Gentoo install. Removing all the .pyc files fixed the problem.
For the record I 'switched' to python2 by changing the /usr/bin/python symlink to point to /usr/bin/python2 instead of /usr/bin/python3 as I didn't want to have to modify the scripts. Hopefully this won't break anything, as other scripts requiring python3 should be looking for "python3" anyway.
Anyway, it seems to be working now so many thanks for your help!

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