[Tutor] problem installing MySQLdb

[Kalle Svensson]

[Pijus Virketis]
> Hi,
> 
> here is a message I got from my ISP when I asked them to install the
> MySQLdb module:
> 
> ------------------------ error message -------------------------
[...]
> ImportError: No module named distutils.core
[...]
> --------------------------- end error message -------------------
> 
> I am not a big expert on the internals of Python, but distutils.core is
> not a typical name for a "module", is it? What could be the problem here?
> My ISP is running Python 1.5.1 on (probably) Linux. They use Apache.

distutils.core is a module in tha package distutils.  Distutils is standard
with Python 1.6 and later and is a framework for installing modules.
It can be downloaded from
http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/download.html
but I don't know if it works with 1.5.1.  It's worth a try, though.

Peace,
  Kalle
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