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2005-05-20
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  • Stephen Aichele

    Stephen Aichele - 2005-05-20

    Hello. I managed to get Python / MySQL / MySQLdb / OS X to play nice a couple years ago, but this round I'm having difficulties.

    I'm running with OS X's native Python install (though there appears to be a MacPython distro included (unimplemented?) by default in OS X 10.4 in addition to the 'standard' Python - very odd). MySQL is version 4.0.24-standard. I've edited my Apache config file to allow for .py extensions. but my python cgi scripts can't locate MySQLdb - or, more specifically, can't locate _mysql.

    from the Python interpreter:

    >>> import MySQLdb
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
    File "MySQLdb/init.py", line 27, in ?
    import _mysql
    ImportError: No module named _mysql

    The challenge of getting python cgi scripts to work with MySQL in OS X has been a major factor in my hesitation to do further python web development (sad but true). I miss it and would love to get this working. TIA as always.

     
    • Andy Dustman

      Andy Dustman - 2005-05-20

      What version of MySQLdb did you install? Try the latest 1.2.1 release candidate.

       
    • Stephen Aichele

      Stephen Aichele - 2005-05-21

      currently 1.2.0 - I'll try the 1.2.1 release and keep you posted!

       
    • Stephen Aichele

      Stephen Aichele - 2005-05-21

      brilliant! That was totally painless!

       
    • Petri Sirkkala

      Petri Sirkkala - 2005-07-17

      I am trying to install MySQLdb version 1.2.1c3.

      My installation on OSX (10.4.2), Python 2.3.5, MySQL 4.1.7-standard builds and installs without errors, but the included test_MySQLdb_dbapi20.py fails in 3 tests.

      The failed tests are: test_fetchall, test_fetchone and test_rowcount

      Is it ok to fail these?

      Here is the testlog:
      laavu-zapto-org:~/Desktop/MySQL-python-1.2.1c3 Petri$ python test_MySQLdb_dbapi20.py
      .......................F.F....F....
      ======================================================================
      FAIL: test_fetchall (main.test_MySQLdb)


      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/Users/Petri/Desktop/MySQL-python-1.2.1c3/dbapi20.py", line 634, in test_fetchall
      self.assertRaises(self.driver.Error,cur.fetchall)
      File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/unittest.py", line 295, in failUnlessRaises
      raise self.failureException, excName
      AssertionError: Error

      ======================================================================
      FAIL: test_fetchone (main.test_MySQLdb)


      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/Users/Petri/Desktop/MySQL-python-1.2.1c3/dbapi20.py", line 487, in test_fetchone
      self.assertRaises(self.driver.Error,cur.fetchone)
      File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/unittest.py", line 295, in failUnlessRaises
      raise self.failureException, excName
      AssertionError: Error

      ======================================================================
      FAIL: test_rowcount (main.test_MySQLdb)


      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/Users/Petri/Desktop/MySQL-python-1.2.1c3/dbapi20.py", line 304, in test_rowcount
      'cursor.rowcount should be -1 after executing no-result '
      File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/unittest.py", line 302, in failUnlessEqual
      raise self.failureException, \ AssertionError: cursor.rowcount should be -1 after executing no-result statements


      Ran 35 tests in 0.916s

      FAILED (failures=3)

       
      • Andy Dustman

        Andy Dustman - 2005-07-17

        You can safely ignore those errors. The author of that test suite has taken an excessively narrow and unreasonable (IMO) interpretation of the API specification.

         

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