MySQLdb error when running python server on MacOSX10.6

Running my server (python manage.py runserver) yielded this error:

django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb module: No module named MySQLdb

I attempted the winning solution on this page with no avail: Django + MySQL on Mac OS 10.6.2 Snow Leopard

And then moved on to try Thierry Lam (5 votes) on Django - MySQLdb: Symbol no开发者_Python百科t found: _mysql_affected_rows

After Thierry Lam's suggestions, my error now reads:

django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb module: dlopen(/Users/steven/.python-eggs/MySQL_python-1.2.3-py2.6-macosx-10.3-fat.egg-tmp/_mysql.so, 2): Library not loaded: libmysqlclient.18.dylib

Which seems very much like the same linking issue. Any wisdom to share? Thanks in advance.

It looks like you have everything installed right, but it can't find libmysqlclient. Have you tried the following?

> sudo ln -s /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib
> sudo ln -s /usr/local/mysql/lib /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql

Sounds like your just missing the mysql-python dependancy for mysql and Django. Don't know how you installed Django though. Use pip or easy_install to install it.

pip install mysql-python

For Django it is recommended to use PostgreSQL though, for development purposes setting up a sqlite database is much, much easier.