On Oct 21, 11:56 am, robin <robinbo...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I have installed Django on my mac with OS 10.6. It installed just fine
> and I was setting up my first project. I then ran python manage.py
> syncdb as I am using MySQL, but I got the following errors:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "manage.py", line 11, in <module>
> execute_manager(settings)
> File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/
> __init__.py", line 362, in execute_manager
> utility.execute()
> File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/
> __init__.py", line 303, in execute
> self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
> File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/
> base.py", line 195, in run_from_argv
> self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
> File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/
> base.py", line 221, in execute
> self.validate()
> File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/
> base.py", line 249, in validate
> num_errors = get_validation_errors(s, app)
> File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/core/management/
> validation.py", line 22, in get_validation_errors
> from django.db import models, connection
> File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/db/__init__.py", line
> 41, in <module>
> backend = load_backend(settings.DATABASE_ENGINE)
> File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/db/__init__.py", line
> 17, in load_backend
> return import_module('.base', 'django.db.backends.%s' %
> backend_name)
> File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/utils/importlib.py",
> line 35, in import_module
> __import__(name)
> File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/db/backends/mysql/
> base.py", line 13, in <module>
> raise ImproperlyConfigured("Error loading MySQLdb module: %s" % e)
> django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb
> module: No module named MySQLdb
>
> Obviously the MySQLdb module didn't load or it can't find it. Could
> someone suggest what I need to do to get it installed?
>
> Many thanks
Did you install MySQLdb? It's not part of Django, and doesn't come
with OSX10.6, but you'll need it if you want to use MySQL. The source
is here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/
but you may find some gotchas when installing it on OSX, there are
plenty of guides a Google away.
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