Re: MySQLdb on Intel Mac

[Kevin Teague]

This thread is very helpful!

I'm running MAMP with phpPOS, and want to work with the database from Python.

For my set-up I had already built a Python 2.4.4 from source for my Intel Mac, and had another version of MySQL with source already installed on my machine in /usr/local/ that I used to build MySQL-python 1.2.2 from source against. Then I just needed to change the startMysql.sh to add the symlink:

ln -s /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock /tmp/mysql.sock

I've also got easy_install installed, so I removed my own build of the MySQL-python package and did:

/usr/local/python/2.4.4/bin/easy_install MySQL-python

This appears to work the MySQL that ships with MAMP as well, and is very easy to install :)