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[Pythoncard-users] MySQLdb for Windows?

[Luis M. G. <lu...@gm...>]

Hi all,

I'm having a hard time trying to find a windows installer for MySQLdb.
All the links I found seem to be broken, and the project's home page in
Sourceforge
doesn't have any binary for Windows(and its friendly author threats to
verbally abuse of anyone asking for it...).

Does anyone have the installer?
Or else, does anyone know how to get it up un running on Windows?

Re: [Pythoncard-users] MySQLdb for Windows?

[Steve H. <sh...@ho...>]

Luis M. Gonzalez wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I'm having a hard time trying to find a windows installer for MySQLdb.
>All the links I found seem to be broken, and the project's home page in
>Sourceforge
>doesn't have any binary for Windows(and its friendly author threats to
>verbally abuse of anyone asking for it...).
>
>Does anyone have the installer?
>Or else, does anyone know how to get it up un running on Windows?
>
>
>  
>
Well, you might have looked a *little* harder. On page

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=22307

we see the file MySQL-python-1.0.0.win32-py2.3.zip 
<http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mysql-python/MySQL-python-1.0.0.win32-py2.3.zip?download> 
linked. If you downlaod that and loook inside the Zip archive there's a 
document called readme.html which (among other things) says:


      """Installation Notes:


There is no installer - extract and put the files in your 
Python\Lib\site-packages directory.
"""

which couldn't really be that horrible, could it? Impressed that Andy's 
finally put the 1.0 nomenclature on it! It's worth putting up, you'll 
have fun once it runs, honest!

Extra marks if you work out how to put the files in a separate 
site-packages subdirectory using a .PTH file to ensure the module is 
still correctly located for import.

regards
 Steve