Error after installing EB CLI 3.x

I am trying to install the elastic beanstalk CLI on an EC2 instance (running AMI) using these instructions:

http://ift.tt/1xNgWwS

I have python 2.7.9 installed, pip and eb. However, when I try to run eb I get the error below. It looks like it is still using python 2.6. How do you fix that?

Thanks!

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/eb", line 9, in load_entry_point('awsebcli==3.0.10', 'console_scripts', 'eb')() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/init.py", line 473, in load_entry_point return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/init.py", line 2568, in load_entry_point return ep.load() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/init.py", line 2259, in load ['name']) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ebcli/core/ebcore.py", line 23, in from ..controllers.initialize import InitController File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ebcli/controllers/initialize.py", line 16, in from ..core.abstractcontroller import AbstractBaseController File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ebcli/core/abstractcontroller.py", line 21, in from ..core import io, fileoperations, operations File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ebcli/core/operations.py", line 762 vars = {n['OptionName']: n['Value'] for n in settings ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax