[Tutor] databases

[Alan Gauld]

On 10/09/11 23:28, Alejandro Companioni wrote:

> Just wanted to chime in, because I wish someone had told me this sooner,
> but if you're using a Mac, try to steer clear of mysql-python. Setting
> it up on a Mac is absolutely infuriating.

I've never used MySql on a Mac but I'm curious why it should be so 
difficult.

MacOS is just BSD Unix under the GUI so why would be any different
to any other Unix type system? What were the problems that you encountered?

> If your databases are MySQL-based and you're using a Mac, I'd recommend
> setting up a Linux VM to access them with Python (or not using Python at
> all). Good luck!

Now that sounds like it should be much more difficult. You'd effectively 
be running a client server setup to a foreign OS
on your own computer but sharing the physical resources...
There must be something really weird about the MacOS setup
to make that easier!

I'm intrigued.

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