This is still better when you are able to experiment versions without quirks and workarounds. Hail virtualenv.
Download the tarball, untar it, make a symlink from inside your project dir to the "django" subdir. If you want to try another version, you just change the symlink to point to the other version. If you are curious which version you're running, you can just do a "ls -l" in the project dir. That's it.