OSX + Python MySQLdb

So I don’t understand why OSX does not want to play nice and build the MySQLdb module for python. I checked out a few ’solutions’ but none of them worked for me. Not wanting to waste more time on something that should work I logged onto my Ubuntu machine and did a ‘apt-get install python-mysqldb python-mysqldb-dbg’ and all was well. Isn’t Mac suppose to be the ‘easy’ OS?