How to use MySQLdb with Python and Django in OSX 10.6?

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2952...

Question links:
[MySQL for Python]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-py.../

Accepted answer links:
http://dakrauth.com/blog/entry/python-an.../

Answer 4 links:
[virtualenv, mysql-python, pip: anyone know how?]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1511...

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ANSWER 1

I had the same error and pip install MySQL-python solved it for me.

Alternate installs:

If you don't have pip, easy_install MySQL-python should work.
If your python is managed by a packaging system, you might have to use that system (e.g. sudo apt-get install ...)

Below, Soli notes that if you receive the following error:

EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found

... then you have a further system dependency issue. Solving this will vary from system to system, but for Debian-derived systems:

sudo apt-get install python-mysqldb

Running Ubuntu, I had to do:

sudo apt-get install python-mysqldb

Adding to other answers, the following helped me finish the installation mysql-python:

On Ubuntu...

apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev
apt-get install python-dev
pip install mysql-python

Don't forget to add 'sudo' to the beginning of commands if you don't have the proper permissions.

mysql_config must be on the path. On Mac, do

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin/
pip install MySQL-python