On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:04 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 > > getting > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\MySQLdb\__init__.py", line 19, > in <module> > > import _mysql > ImportError: No module named _mysql > > WHY YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY???????? > why does it have to be so complicated???? what am i doing wrong for > god's sake?
Suggestion: install python2.5 for windows, and then download this one: http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=22307&filename=MySQL-python-1.2.2.win32-py2.5.exe&a=71602382 I'm sure you'll save yourself a lot of time. Regards Marco -- Marco Bizzarri http://notenotturne.blogspot.com/ http://iliveinpisa.blogspot.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
