I recall having a similar problem. Get the MySQL bindings appropriate to your Python version below and install to your site-packages folder:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/ 2010/10/13 Everett <rocketco...@gmail.com> > > > On Oct 13, 2:34 am, Jonathan Barratt <jonathan.barr...@knifeict.com> > wrote: > > On 13 ?.?. 2010, at 10:19, Everett wrote: > > > > > I'm running Django on Windows. When I edited the settings.py file for > > > the MySql database I'm running in an XAMPP package, the Django > > > development server throws a bunch of unhandled exceptions. It starts > > > out like this: > > > > <snip> > > > > The most useful error message will be the last entry in the traceback > rather than the start of it. Please provide that message and we may have > more to go on. > > > > > Is this because of how I'm running the MySQL database? Or the > > > information in the settings.py file is off? Cause when I take all the > > > database settings out of the settings.py file the development server > > > runs fine. > > > > If there are no DB settings then obviously Django doesn't try to talk to > the DB, so yes that does suggest the problem is in the Django-DB > interaction. > > > > <snip> > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > The first idea that pops into my head is that you may not have Python's > MySQL bindings installed (perhttp:// > docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/install/#get-your-databas...), which > is available athttp://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/ > > > > If do already have that package installed then we'll just have to see the > most recent call that threw an exception... > > > > Best wishes, > > Jonathan > > Ok I was just assuming Python already had the MySQL bindings. > So I've downloaded the MySQL-python-1.2.3.tar.gz, I decompressed it, > read that I needed easy_install or setuptools. So I installed > setuptools/easy_install but for some reason it won't install the MySQL- > python files. I tried getting easy_install to download it, wouldn't > work. I tried to get it to use the compressed version, still didn't > work. I'm guessing it's not working cause the easy_install needs an > egg file, yet there doesn't seem to be one in any of the directories. > > As for the errors at the bottom of the thrown exceptions: > > raise ImproperlyConfigured("Error loading MySQLdb module: %s" %e) > django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb > module: No module named MySQLdb > > does that help? > > Thanks > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<django-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- Regards, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube http://www.lloyddube.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
