MySQLdb on Mac Lion

[Tim Johnson]

* Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> [111012 18:12]:
> In article <20111013005244.GK6671 at johnsons-web.com>,
>  Tim Johnson <tim at akwebsoft.com> wrote:
> > I'm most experienced with MySQLdb on ubuntu, which is installed via
> > apt-get or synaptic.
> > 
> > I am setting up a mac mini with osX 10.7 (Lion). Macports makes
> > py27-mysql 1.2.2 available, but are there any .dmg packages
> > available?
> 
> I strongly recommend you stick with MacPorts or Homebrew.  There are too 
> many things that can go wrong on OS X 10.6 or 10.7 if you try to install 
> MySQL client libraries, MySQLdb, and Python from different places.  IME, 
> the binary installers for OS X provided by the MySQL are inconsistently 
> built between versions and often need the library paths need to be 
> tweaked.   The only major drawback of using MacPorts is that it will 
> download (and possibly build) its own version of Python but it's a small 
> price to pay: search the archives of Stackoverflow to see how 
> dismayingly often this topic comes up.
  Thanks for that Ned.
-- 
Tim 
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