Question

I need to install Python 2.7 on a machine, from source, alongside the existing version on the machine (2.4). I have compiled and installed Python successfully, but when I try to run a script calling the MySQLDB module, it throws the following error:

[root@the-node1 bin]# interactive_recording_archive.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/interactive_recording_archive.py", line 8, in <module>
    import MySQLdb as mdb
ImportError: No module named MySQLdb

I have tried installing MySQLDB using the easy-install script but this fails to find any module by that name. I have MySQL installed and working on the machine.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

The package is called MySQL-python:

easy_install MySQL-python

Do check the installation requirements; you have python and setuptools, but you need the mysql-devel package too.