module doesn't provide __init__ in 1.2.3c1

[Anonymous]

After what looked like a successful build and install on Mac OSx. Snow Leopard
I get the following error. Any ideas why?

import MySQLdb

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>

File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/MySQLdb/init.py", line 19, in
<module>

File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/_mysql.py", line 7, in <module>

File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/_mysql.py", line 6, in
bootstrap

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

[Anonymous]

Found this post on http://www.davidcramer.net/code/57/mysqldb-on-
leopard.html and
removing the directories below fixed my import problem:

Begin of post by user muanis

I've got the same problem.

Running mysql 5.1.35. After discovering that I should change to 32 bit
version, repeated all the steps and got the same error about the init
function.

import MySQLdb

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)

After a couple of hours debugging I noticed that the dist and build dirs of
MySQLdb 1.2.2 were not removed when I issue a python setup.py clean.

I manually removed both of them and got everything working fine.