help with an import error

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help with an import error

Forum: Open Discussion

Creator: patrick zhao

Created: 2009-07-08

Updated: 2012-09-19

patrick zhao - 2009-07-08

I've just installed MySQL-python-1.2.3c1. When I tried to import MySQLdb
I encouned the following error messge:

import MySQLdb
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/MySQLdb/init.py", line 19, in <module>
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/_mysql.py", line 7, in <module>
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/_mysql.py", line 6, in bootstrap
ImportError: /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.so.14: undefined symbol: uncompress

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- Andy Dustman - 2009-07-08
  
  Read README: You need zlib development libraries.
  
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- patrick zhao - 2009-07-08
  
  My python version is 2.5, MYSQL is 4.1
  
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George Jansen - 2009-10-09

A bit late in the day to add to this, but maybe worth adding to the README:
one can have the zlib development libraries and still be stuck. I found that
the libs_r line of /usr/lib/mysql/mysql_config did not have the -lz flag;
once I added that and recompiled, all was well.

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