On 1/25/2011 3:51 PM, Matthew Roth wrote:
On Jan 25, 6:20 pm, David Robinow<drobi...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Matthew Roth<mgrot...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jan 25, 9:34 pm, John Nagle<na...@animats.com> wrote:
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You can install a MySQL server under Windows, and talk to the server
from the Cygwin environment. That's a useful way to test.
John Nagle
Right, that is precisely what I have. I am able to talk to it from
cygwin, however, during the installing of the MySQLdb module it cannot
find the mysql_config. This is because It is not installed? The setup
sees that I am on a posix system not windows, as python is installed
in cygwin, a virtual posix system. I am trying to bulid a mysql client
from source for cygwin, however, I am running into an error there.
Unless, can I talk to the windows mysql_config? if so, what does that
look like
The obvious answer is to use a Windows python. You haven't explained
why you think you need to run a cygwin python. Can you explain that?
Good question. There isn't a solid explanation. heretofore, I have
been using a lot of bash scripting in combination with awk sed and
some perl. I was directed to look into python. My tasks were becoming
increasingly complex and memory intensive. I started with a desire to
connect to a mysql server. For that I needed to install the MySQLdb
module. I am having difficultly in acomplishment of this task. I
suppose for the time it has taken, using windows python would have
been the simpler route.
Oh. And all this time, I thought it was because you needed to
run on a Linux server and were using Cygwin for debugging.
I routinely develop Python on Windows and run on Linux servers.
This works fine, provided that you can find versions of any necessary C
modules for Python for both platforms.
John Nagle
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