Andrew,
Good info. Thanks! I'm hearing lots of good things about Homebrew.
If I go to a package manager, I may try it instead of MacPorts. For now,
I've succeeded with just installing setuptools and MySQLdb, as described
below, and not re-installing MySQL or Python.
I installed MacPorts, but decided not to use it after doing a dry-run
and seeing that it was planning to re-install a bunch of stuff that it
doesn't know I already have installed and configured: MySQL,
Python, etc. Seems like MacPorts is too intrusive if you don't use
it from day one for all Mac installs. Homebrew would have the
same problem, I guess, as do yum and apt-get on Linux. It's hard
to start using any of them after a couple years of configuring the
system manually because none of the packages you already
installed are recorded in their records. I may start using Homebrew
the next time I configure a Mac from scratch, just as I now do all
of my Linux boxes via yum.
For now, I did a manual install of Python setuptools, and then a
manual install of the MySQLdb driver for Python. Everything's
working fine. Turned out to be as easy as:
- Download setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg from
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/
% sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg
- Download MySQL-python-1.2.3.tar.gz from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/
% gunzip MySQL-python-1.2.3.tar.gz
% tar -xvf MySQL-python-1.2.3.tar
% cd MySQL-python-1.2.3
% python setup.py build
% sudo python setup.py install
Thanks!
--Fred
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On 9/23/12 9:54 PM, Andrew Macgregor wrote:
Hi Fred,
I've also found HomeBrew to be useful. Here's a good setup guide:
http://www.thisisthegreenroom.com/2011/installing-python-numpy-scipy-matplotlib-and-ipython-on-lion/
Cheers, Andrew.
On Monday, September 24, 2012 2:02:37 AM UTC+8, Fred Stluka wrote:
Resolved this on my own. Here's what I did:
- Downloaded and installed MacPorts, but decided not to use it
because I have too much software already installed that
MacPorts doesn't know about and wants to reinstall (MySQL,
Python, OpenSSL, etc.)
- Downloaded and installed Python setuptools and resumed the
MySQLdb setup that I'd already begun (see my previous post
appended below). It turned out to be easy:
- Download setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg from
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/
<http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/>
% sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg
% cd MySQL-python-1.2.3
% python setup.py build
% sudo python setup.py install
Success! Now I can access MySQL from my Python/Django apps.
BTW, I also downloaded and installed PyCharm. Nice Python IDE!
--Fred
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On 9/22/12 5:28 PM, Fred Stluka wrote:
Django users,
What's the latest on the easiest way to access MySQL from Django
on Mac OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard)?
I've Googled lots of info, but some may be outdated. Seems to be
more complicated than it should be, especially since everything else
to do with Django has been so easy.
Here's what I've done and learned:
- Followed MYSQLdb link in Django docs:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/topics/install/#database-installation
<https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/topics/install/#database-installation>
to:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/>
and downloaded:
MySQL-python-1.2.3.tar.gz
- More info at: http://mysql-python.sourceforge.net/
<http://mysql-python.sourceforge.net/>
- Confirmed it is not already installed:
% python
Python 2.7.3 (v2.7.3:70274d53c1dd, Apr 9 2012, 20:52:43)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
information.
>>> import MySQLdb
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "MySQLdb/__init__.py", line 19, in <module>
import _mysql
ImportError: No module named _mysql
>>>
% gunzip MySQL-python-1.2.3.tar.gz
% tar -xvf MySQL-python-1.2.3.tar
% less README
- Lots of caveats. Has to be built and installed. Looks ugly.
- Says it requires setuptools Python module.
- Confirmed setuptools is not already installed, by trying
the import
statement that setup.py is going to do:
% python
>>> from setuptools import setup, Extension
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named setuptools
>>>
% python setup.py build
- Got error, as expected:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 5, in <module>
from setuptools import setup, Extension
ImportError: No module named setuptools
Exit 1
% sudo python setup.py install
- No. Didn't try. Not yet built.
So now I need setuptools first. Am I starting down a long dependency
chain of installs, or will this be easy?
I have a Linux server, where it appears that I could use yum to do
a painless install:
% yum list all | grep -i mysql | grep -i py
MySQL-python.x86_64 1.2.3-0.3.c1.1.8.amzn1 amzn-main
Perhaps there's an easier way for Mac OS X also? Did some more
Googling and found:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1448429/how-to-install-mysqldb-python-data-access-library-to-mysql-on-mac-os-x
<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1448429/how-to-install-mysqldb-python-data-access-library-to-mysql-on-mac-os-x>
which is a longish manual set of instructions by an author who
wishes
there were a better way, but another reply says to just use
MacPorts to
install it.
Any advice? Thanks!
--Fred
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