Django MySQLdb version doesn't match _mysql version Ubuntu

Question

I\'m trying to get a django site deployed from a repository. I was almost there, and then changed something (I\'m not sure what!!) and was back to square one.

Now I\

Answer 1

I got the same problem after installing mysql-python using pip. Seems to be an error in the pip package. I solved it by pip uninstall'ing it again, after which i downloaded and installed the package manually like this:

• # download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python
• $ tar xfz MySQL-python-1.2.3.tar.gz (replace with newest version)
• $ cd MySQL-python-1.2.3
• $ python setup.py build
• $ sudo python setup.py install

Answer 2

For those who come upon this question:

It turns out that ubuntu _mysql version was different from the one in my venv. Uninstalling that and re-installing in my venv did the trick.