hi, all! this is my first contact with python, I installed python 2.4 (on Win2k) and unzipped the MySQLdb package "MySQL-Python 1.0.0 for win32" into Lib/site-packages.
However, when I try to import the MySQLdb package, I am faced with the error message "DLL load failed", in more detail: >>> import MySQLdb Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#9>", line 1, in -toplevel- import MySQLdb File "C:\Programme\Python24\lib\site-packages\MySQLdb\__init__.py", line 27, in -toplevel- import _mysql ImportError: DLL load failed: Das angegebene Modul wurde nicht gefunden. The directory structure is (only the relevant parts): C:\Programme\Python24 | +-- Lib | +-- site-packages | +-- _mysql.pyd +-- _mysql_exceptions.py +-- CompatMysqldb.py +-- MySQLdb | +-- __init__.py +-- connections.py +-- ... One thing strikes me: in sys.path, the path to "site-packages" contains the dir "lib" (lowercase!) whereas in the file system it would be written "Lib" (mixed case). Could this pose a problem? This is the path: >>> sys.path ['C:\\Programme\\Python24\\Lib\\idlelib', 'C:\\WINNT\\system32 \\python24.zip', 'C:\\Programme\\Python24', 'C:\\Programme\\Python24 \\DLLs', 'C:\\Programme\\Python24\\lib', 'C:\\Programme\\Python24\\lib \\plat-win', 'C:\\Programme\\Python24\\lib\\lib-tk', 'C:\\Programme \\Python24\\lib\\site-packages'] Any hints for me? TIA Alex -- remove underscore+nospam if you want to mail me -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list