Prerequisite
Make sure
you installed MySQL.
Step 1: Install PIP, if you don’t install. Following post
explains you how to install PIP.
Step 2: Run following command to install MySQL.
pip install
MySQL-python
# pip install MySQL-python Collecting MySQL-python Using cached MySQL-python-1.2.5.zip Installing collected packages: MySQL-python Running setup.py install for MySQL-python Successfully installed MySQL-python-1.2.5
Step 3: Create symbolic link.
ln -s
/usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib
Step 4: Open new terminal. Open python prompt and type ‘import
MySQLdb’.
$ python Python 2.7.5 (default, Mar 9 2014, 22:15:05) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 5.0 (clang-500.0.68)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> >>> import MySQLdb >>>
If you don’t
get any error, you successfully installed MySQLdb. If MySQLdb is not installed
properly, you will get following error.
>>> import MySQLdb Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ImportError: No module named 'MySQLdb'
Note:
1. If you
got any error, try reinstalling after exporting the path like below
export
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin/
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