Cannot import any modules (installed used pip) in python 2.7.14

I downloaded the source code of python 2.7.14 and built it and installed it on linux ( Red Hat 4.8.5-16 ). I have earlier installed python-magic and requests libraries. Now when I try to import modules installed using pip, I get this:

$ python2
Python 2.7.14 (default, Nov  9 2017, 09:05:45) 
[GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-16)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import magic
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named magic
>>> import requests
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named requests

while similar thing works perfectly fine in python 2.7.5 (default with the RHEL system)

$ python
Python 2.7.5 (default, May  3 2017, 07:55:04) 
[GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-14)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import magic
>>> import requests
>>>

Am I missing any configuration step here?

Answer

The modules installed via pip are only available to the standard python version. You need to install your desired packages for the non-standard python versions as well (see also Installing Python Modules)

python2 -m pip install python-magic
python2 -m pip install requests

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