MySQLdb Installed + Django for PetrolTracker

I finally sat down and spend some good time getting the python bindings for MySQL compiled and installed. Now that they work I got down to learning Django and to do that I purchased ‘The Definitive Guide to django’. So far the book has been great, and I am getting through the database sections now. Tonight and tomorrow I will make a big dent in it and maybe finish it. Then its onto redoing the production machine with nginx + apache + mod_wsgi. First I will redo the beta sign up for PetrolTracker.com with django and then start working on the transition of the rest of the site.

I zipped up my source directory I used with the modifications i made and posted it below. If this does not work (or if it does) please post back.

http://syncoder.com/MySQL-python-1.2.2.zip

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?