Django manage.py syncdb throwing No module named MySQLdb

Question

I am a newbie learning Python/Django...

Am using the following tutorial located here.

Created a mysite database in MySQL 5 running on Snow Leopard.

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Answer 1

sudo easy_install mysql-python

will install the MySQLdb module to allow you to work with MySQL from Python, or, if you want to work with virtualenv (which you should),

sudo easy_install virtualenv virtualenvwrapper
export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs
export PIP_VIRTUALENV_BASE=$WORKON_HOME
source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper_bashrc
mkvirtualenv mysite
pip install mysql-python django

Will put you inside a virtualenv with a current install of django (you can specify which version, e.g. django==1.1.1) and the MySQLdb module installed. Using virtualenv will allow you to have separate environments for different projects so you can install different modules and even use different versions of those modules (or Python) for different projects. To leave you virtualenv just type the command

deactivate

or, to switch to the environment 'foo' type

workon foo

You should also, if you're going to be using virtualenv add these three lines to your ~/.bash_profile (on OS X, ~/.bashrc generally on Linux):

export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs # where virtualenvs should be created
export PIP_VIRTUALENV_BASE=$WORKON_HOME # tells pip where to look for virtualenvs
source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper_bashrc # bash completion and wrapper functions for virtualenv