martinnorth wrote: > Hi, > > I am running Python and MySQL on Ubuntu and have installed MySQLdb. If I > try to import MySQLdb I get the following error: > > ActivePython 2.5.2.2 (ActiveState Software Inc.) based on > Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Mar 27 2008, 16:42:08) > [GCC 3.3.1 (SuSE Linux)] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> import MySQLdb > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > ImportError: No module named MySQLdb > > But if I lrun python as the root user it imports fine. Can anyone > suggest what might be wrong with the installation? Or is there nothing > wrong? I haven't seen any examples that mentioned being root to import a > module.
You have probably installed two versions of Python. You can verify that by typing $ which python and $ sudo which python I suspect that root sees the python that comes with Ubuntu and that has MySQLdb installed while the normal user sees ActiveState's Python. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
