Problems installing MySQLdb on Windows [newbie]

[Alex Meier]

hi, all!

this is my first contact with python, I installed python 2.4 (on Win2k) 
and unzipped the MySQLdb package "MySQL-Python 1.0.0 for win32" into 
Lib/site-packages. 

However, when I try to import the MySQLdb package, I am faced with the 
error message "DLL load failed", in more detail:

>>> import MySQLdb

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#9>", line 1, in -toplevel-
    import MySQLdb
  File "C:\Programme\Python24\lib\site-packages\MySQLdb\__init__.py", 
line 27, in -toplevel-
    import _mysql
ImportError: DLL load failed: Das angegebene Modul wurde nicht gefunden.

The directory structure is (only the relevant parts):

C:\Programme\Python24
 |
 +-- Lib
      |
      +-- site-packages
            |
            +-- _mysql.pyd
            +-- _mysql_exceptions.py
            +-- CompatMysqldb.py
            +-- MySQLdb
                  |
                  +-- __init__.py
                  +-- connections.py
                  +-- ...

One thing strikes me: in sys.path, the path to "site-packages" contains 
the dir "lib" (lowercase!) whereas in the file system it would be 
written "Lib" (mixed case). Could this pose a problem?

This is the path:

>>> sys.path
['C:\\Programme\\Python24\\Lib\\idlelib', 'C:\\WINNT\\system32
\\python24.zip', 'C:\\Programme\\Python24', 'C:\\Programme\\Python24
\\DLLs', 'C:\\Programme\\Python24\\lib', 'C:\\Programme\\Python24\\lib
\\plat-win', 'C:\\Programme\\Python24\\lib\\lib-tk', 'C:\\Programme
\\Python24\\lib\\site-packages']

Any hints for me?

TIA
Alex

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