dchoung

I just survived a 2-day ordeal in trying get MySQLdb to play nice with Snow Leopard. I wish I had written down every step of this 'adventure', but I didn't think it would drag on this long. All I can do is provide these links to the curious, as they helped me immensely in getting through this, and then curl in the corner and enter 'python manage.py runserver' in the terminal without any errors.

This was the original article that walked me through my MySQLdb installation while on Leopard (10.5), How to install Django with MySQL on Mac OS X, thanks to this my installation ran like a charm… on Leopard.

This is the first article I ran to after MySQLdb broke, thanks to Snow Leopard. MySQL-Python and Apple OSX 10.5 (Leopard), overall it says pretty much the same things, but there are differences in the details.

This is where I went after pulling out my hair for a bit, Python-MySQL Connections on Mac OS, while for the most part I think he was relying on Macports, there was still some useful information to be extracted.

This is where, I believe, I finally found the answer to my problem by following the comments, mysql-python and Snow Leopard.

Unfortunately, links are all I can provide at this point, hopefully this will help someone.