PostgreSQL is great, you will have no regrets!
Cheers, AT On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 6:13 AM, angelika <angelika.ols...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you all for your help and suggestions. Last time I installed > Django it took a full two days and I was nearly in tears at the end. > Most of the time was spend trying to solve the problems that Kurtis is > talking about, with the MySQLdb package. Although I am usually not a > person who takes shortcuts, this time I'm really looking for the > easiest way to just get the darn thing to work. > > creecode, I tried the commands you suggested first. No matter which > version I switched to, it still said No module named django, which > seems weird but there it is. So I ran sudo easy_install django, just > to see if it could be that easy. When the install was done, it seemed > to work at first. I could run import django, no problem. I started the > tutorial on djangoproject.com and got as far as setting up a db and > running python manage.py runserver, before the dreaded > "django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb > module: No module named MySQLdb" started showing up. God damn it. > > At this point I thinking maybe I should just switch to using > PostgreSQL instead, if that would solve the problem. What do you guys > think? > > /Angelika > > On Oct 27, 6:12 pm, Andre Terra <andrete...@gmail.com> wrote: > > IMHO, If you can't understand how imports and sys.path work, it's best to > > put the Django book aside and read up on the basics of installing and > > running Python. > > > > Cheers, > > AT > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 1:55 PM, creecode <creec...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Angelika may not want to get into virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper at > this > > > point. If you're just getting into Python/Django it may be more > overhead > > > than you want to deal with conceptually at this time. If your project > is > > > simple or you're just learning then you may want to wait until you feel > the > > > need for these tools. > > > > > Don't get me wrong these tools are fantastic and I use them myself! > > > > > Toodle-loooooooooo.......... > > > creecode > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > > "Django users" group. > > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > >https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/uzKtIhXl5qMJ. > > > > > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
