On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:04 PM, 83nini <83n...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi guys, > > i've been sweating the whole day trying to make python work with mysql > but in vain! > i'm doing the following: > 1. visiting http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python > 2. dowloading mysql-python-test-1.2.3c1 > 3. extracting the files to C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages > 4. writing "import MySQLdb" in the python prompt
I don't believe step 3 is the proper way to install this extension. I don't have any personal experience with this package, but it appears to be a setuptools based extension package. Based on that, I believe the proper way to install it is to extract all of the files to a temporary directory and run 'python setup.py install' from the command line. It looks like this package also has a _mysql.c file that setuptools will need to compile. That means you'll need all the appropriate build tools for compiling c extension modules on windows in a way that's compatible with your version of python. Alternatively, it means waiting for someone who does have all of that infrastructure already set up and working to compile a windows installer. Also, as Emile pointed out, all of that may be in vain, since python 2.6 doesn't appear to be supported by this extension yet. -- Jerry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
