Installing MySQLdb via FTP?

[Tim Johnson]

* Corey Richardson <corey at octayn.net> [120608 11:39]:
> On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 09:55:23 -0800
> Tim Johnson <tim at akwebsoft.com> <tim at akwebsoft.com> wrote:
> 
> >   See the thread titled "Python libraries portable?" you will note
> >   that Corey Richardson makes the statement that MySQLdb is a C
> >   extension. I accepted that statement, but upon looking at the
> >   directories (I am on Mac Lion, but believe it may be the same for
> >   Linux) I see no binaries, just straight .py and .pyc files.
> > 
> 
> http://mysql-python.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/mysql-python/MySQLdb-2.0/file/566baac88764/src
> 
> It definitely is. The C extension part is the '_mysql' module, here it
> is /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_mysql.so. MySQLdb (of which
> _mysql is a part) uses that to provide a DB-API 2.0 compliant API.
  Understood. I missed that because the shared object file is in
  another directory.
  On mac (darwin) it is
  /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/

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