Comments on: Installing Python MySQLdb 1.2.2 on Mac OS X

By: aspratley

aspratley — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:45:32 +0000

If you're having trouble getting it installed the new version of mysql-python requires some different instructions, also if you're using 64 or 32 bit versions of python or mysql will make a difference. There's some information here: http://learninglamp.wordpress.com/2010/02/21/mysqldb-python-mysql-and-os-x-a-match-made-in-satans-bum/

By: ygarten

ygarten — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:29:27 +0000

This was a great posting, and ultimately the instructions on this page saved me:
http://birdhouse.org/blog/2009/02/21/python-mysql-connections-on-mac-os/

Explanation:
I had the same problem (errors) as David Morton, after following Kearny’s advice.

I tried downgrading to 1.2.2, then 1.2.1 using that advice, and still got:
>>> import MySQLdb
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 1, in
File “MySQLdb/__init__.py”, line 19, in
import _mysql
ImportError: dynamic module does not define init function (init_mysql)

Finally, found that this error:
Re: ImportError: module does not define init function (init_mysql)

As reported elsewhere by Leon Harris, gives clues towards using darwinports to fix it:

“I was stuck with this error for absolutely ages. I found that using the py25-mysql.darwinports.com port of python mysql connector fixed the problem. Which was occurring due to a problematic _mysql.so file in site-packages.”

Googled that, and found solution by following:

http://birdhouse.org/blog/2009/02/21/python-mysql-connections-on-mac-os/

And it works!!!

By: laptop ekran

laptop ekran — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:48:33 +0000

thank you good share

By: Clark

Clark — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:17:35 +0000

http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=5808948

This link fixed my issue above.

It’s also good to make sure that if you build your own version of Python that you update all of the SymLinks.

By: Clark

Clark — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:29:52 +0000

OSX Server 10.5… any ideas. I get the following warning. Is that a bad thing or is this a harmless warning.

Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Apr 16 2009, 09:17:39)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250)] on darwin
Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information.
>>> import MySQLdb
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/MySQL_python-1.2.2-py2.6-macosx-10.3-fat.egg/MySQLdb/__init__.py:34: DeprecationWarning: the sets module is deprecated
>>>

By: no

no — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:18:00 +0000

Correction, simply doesn’t work with MAMP. Instructions work fine with 10.5.6 once I junked MAMP.

By: no

no — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:13:04 +0000

Simply doesn’t work on 10.5.6

By: kvh

kvh — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:43:44 +0000

f ing brilliant man! thanks!

By: Michael G.

Michael G. — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:58:00 +0000

In what directory (aka “folder”) should I start this process? The download drops the tar.gz file on my desktop, but that seems an odd place to start an installation.

Thank you!

Michael

By: jordi

jordi — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:04:10 +0000

all ok, but the build does not work. Any clue?

olea:MySQL-python-1.2.2 jvilla$ sudo python setup.py build
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5
copying _mysql_exceptions.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5
creating build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb/__init__.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb/converters.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb/connections.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb/cursors.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb/release.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb/times.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/MySQLdb
creating build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/MySQLdb/constants
copying MySQLdb/constants/__init__.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/MySQLdb/constants
copying MySQLdb/constants/CR.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/MySQLdb/constants
copying MySQLdb/constants/FIELD_TYPE.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/MySQLdb/constants
copying MySQLdb/constants/ER.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/MySQLdb/constants
copying MySQLdb/constants/FLAG.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/MySQLdb/constants
copying MySQLdb/constants/REFRESH.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/MySQLdb/constants
copying MySQLdb/constants/CLIENT.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/MySQLdb/constants
running build_ext
building ‘_mysql’ extension
creating build/temp.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5
gcc -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-long-double -no-cpp-precomp -mno-fused-madd -fno-common -dynamic -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Dversion_info=(1,2,2,’final’,0) -D__version__=1.2.2 -I/usr/local/mysql/include -I/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/include/python2.5 -c _mysql.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/_mysql.o -g -Os -arch x86_64 -fno-common -D_P1003_1B_VISIBLE -DSIGNAL_WITH_VIO_CLOSE -DSIGNALS_DONT_BREAK_READ -DIGNORE_SIGHUP_SIGQUIT -DDONT_DECLARE_CXA_PURE_VIRTUAL
In file included from /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/include/python2.5/Python.h:57,
from pymemcompat.h:10,
from _mysql.c:29:
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/include/python2.5/pyport.h:761:2: error: #error “LONG_BIT definition appears wrong for platform (bad gcc/glibc config?).”
In file included from _mysql.c:35:
/usr/local/mysql/include/my_config.h:1240:1: warning: “SIZEOF_LONG” redefined
In file included from /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/include/python2.5/Python.h:8,
from pymemcompat.h:10,
from _mysql.c:29:
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/include/python2.5/pyconfig.h:811:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
error: command ‘gcc’ failed with exit status 1

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:26:55 +0000

Still getting this error:

ImportError: dynamic module does not define init function (init_mysql)

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/Users/me/Applications/python/test/src/test.py”, line 17, in
import MySQLdb
File “build/bdist.macosx-10.5-i386/egg/MySQLdb/__init__.py”, line 19, in
File “build/bdist.macosx-10.5-i386/egg/_mysql.py”, line 7, in
File “build/bdist.macosx-10.5-i386/egg/_mysql.py”, line 6, in __bootstrap__
ImportError: dynamic module does not define init function (init_mysql)

I’ve tried multiple options to get MySQLdb working on 10.5.6:

- http://mysql-python.blogspot.com/2008/03/i-am-not-dead.html

- http://www.mangoorange.com/2008/08/01/installing-python-mysqldb-122-on-mac-os-x/

… and I’ve tried Mac Python 3.0.

I seem to be in a Catch-22 — the version 2.3/2.5 Pythons that comes with 10.5 won’t work, the 3.0 Python can’t find the MySQLdb package at all — and presumably will also miss any other (add-on) local packages I’ve installed.

Is there any other alternative to dumping out the MySQL data into a suitable flat file format and sucking it back into a python dictionary — primitive, but probably will work for now — though I’ll pay a price every time the data in the database changes.

Anyone have a MySQLdb fix that works for OS X 10.5.6?

I admit I’m surprised that python, which has been so robust in having libraries and methods for so many things, hasn’t got something as simple as a working Mac OS X MySQL interface. Heck, even Perl has multiple to chose from.

Thanks for any assistance …

By: Lyle

Lyle — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:46:18 +0000

I got pages and pages of errors when I tried to build.

Thanks for trying.

By: Stephen Clark

Stephen Clark — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:27:55 +0000

OSX 10.5.6
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jan 13 2009, 10:26:13)

>>> import MySQLdb
/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/MySQL_python-1.2.2-py2.5-macosx-10.5-i386.egg/_mysql.py:3: UserWarning: Module _mysql was already imported from /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/MySQL_python-1.2.2-py2.5-macosx-10.5-i386.egg/_mysql.pyc, but /Users/stephenkennedy-clark/Desktop/MySQL-python-1.2.2 is being added to sys.path
import sys, pkg_resources, imp
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 1, in
File “MySQLdb/__init__.py”, line 19, in
import _mysql
File “build/bdist.macosx-10.5-i386/egg/_mysql.py”, line 7, in
File “build/bdist.macosx-10.5-i386/egg/_mysql.py”, line 6, in __bootstrap__
ImportError: dynamic module does not define init function (init_mysql)

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:29:57 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

Thank you.

By: Sampath Girish Munagala

Sampath Girish Munagala — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:29:41 +0000

Hi Friend,
I got some problem regarding building ’setup.py’ file. I am pasting the following error which i’ve got at the time of building and installing file.

Sampath:MySQL-python-1.2.2 venkatarampey$ sudo python setup.py build
running build
running build_py
copying MySQLdb/release.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/MySQLdb
running build_ext
building ‘_mysql’ extension
gcc -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-long-double -no-cpp-precomp -mno-fused-madd -fno-common -dynamic -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Dversion_info=(1,2,2,’final’,0) -D__version__=1.2.2 -I/usr/local/mysql/include -I/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/include/python2.5 -c _mysql.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/_mysql.o -g -Os -arch i386 -fno-common -D_P1003_1B_VISIBLE -DSIGNAL_WITH_VIO_CLOSE -DSIGNALS_DONT_BREAK_READ -DIGNORE_SIGHUP_SIGQUIT -DDONT_DECLARE_CXA_PURE_VIRTUAL
unable to execute gcc: No such file or directory
error: command ‘gcc’ failed with exit status 1

Sampath:MySQL-python-1.2.2 venkatarampey$ sudo python setup.py install
running install
running bdist_egg
running egg_info
writing MySQL_python.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing top-level names to MySQL_python.egg-info/top_level.txt
writing dependency_links to MySQL_python.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
reading manifest file ‘MySQL_python.egg-info/SOURCES.txt’
reading manifest template ‘MANIFEST.in’
writing manifest file ‘MySQL_python.egg-info/SOURCES.txt’
installing library code to build/bdist.macosx-10.3-i386/egg
running install_lib
running build_py
copying MySQLdb/release.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/MySQLdb
running build_ext
building ‘_mysql’ extension
gcc -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-long-double -no-cpp-precomp -mno-fused-madd -fno-common -dynamic -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Dversion_info=(1,2,2,’final’,0) -D__version__=1.2.2 -I/usr/local/mysql/include -I/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/include/python2.5 -c _mysql.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/_mysql.o -g -Os -arch i386 -fno-common -D_P1003_1B_VISIBLE -DSIGNAL_WITH_VIO_CLOSE -DSIGNALS_DONT_BREAK_READ -DIGNORE_SIGHUP_SIGQUIT -DDONT_DECLARE_CXA_PURE_VIRTUAL
unable to execute gcc: No such file or directory
error: command ‘gcc’ failed with exit status 1

How can i solve this??? Please help me out….

Sampath Girish.M