MySQLdb and bits

[voidnothings]

On Jun 13, 5:52 am, Dafydd Hughes <dafyd... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there
>
> This is my first post to the list - please forgive me if this has been
> addressed elsewhere.
>
> I'm running MySQL 32-bit in Snow Leopard, and had MySQLdb working well.
> I switched to 64-bit, rebuilt MySQLdb, and again it worked fine within
> Python, but had to switch back to 32 bit - I'm using a wrapper for
> Python within Pure Data, and it forces Python to 32-bit.
>
> So back to 32-bit. It works fine wrapped in Pd, but if I try import
> MySQLdb from the terminal, I get:
>
>  >>> import MySQLdb
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>    File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-fat/egg/MySQLdb/__init__.py", line 19,
> in <module>
>    File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-fat/egg/_mysql.py", line 7, in <module>
>    File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-fat/egg/_mysql.py", line 6, in
> __bootstrap__
> ImportError:
> dlopen(/Users/dafydd/.python-eggs/MySQL_python-1.2.3c1-py2.6-macosx-10.6-fat.egg-tmp/_mysql.so,
> 2): no suitable image found.  Did find:
>
> /Users/dafydd/.python-eggs/MySQL_python-1.2.3c1-py2.6-macosx-10.6-fat.egg-tmp/_mysql.so:
> mach-o, but wrong architecture
>
> Is there a solution to this? I assume this is happening because Python's
> trying to work 64-bit but MySQLdb was built 32. Am I way off base?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> cheers
> dafydd

I got the same problem though in a different scenario. I'm trying to
setup my local django environment here and mysql_python fails on me.
Same "...mach-o, but wrong architecture" message. Anyone?