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Setting up Python, MySQL Module and Django on Mac OS X Lion

I setup Python and Django using homebrew the easy way. I am going to detail the process now.

Install Python

The command should first install any dependencies for Python and then install the latest version from source code.

Adding Python to PATH

We need to edit our ~/.bash_profile to add “/usr/local/share/python” to the path variable. I added the following line to my bash profile:

I reloaded the profile by issuing:

This makes the python tools and toys accessible from my terminal.

Install MySQL Module

It’s recommended that you already have “mysql” installed from brew to build the mysql module. I already had it installed so it was a painless installation for me. I just issued the command:

Install Django
I am going to keep using the PIP awesomeness! Let’s hit:

It will install django with any dependencies. You can now invoke the “django-admin.py” command from your terminal. However, I prefer the command be “django-admin”, instead of “django-admin.py”. So I created the following alias in my ~/.bash_profile:

Isn’t it simple? 😀

4 replies on “Setting up Python, MySQL Module and Django on Mac OS X Lion”

Dear brother,

 

I can’t install mysql-python. I installed before. Last one month ago i had to send my mac for reinstall. Any way I have the following application-

MySQL – 5.6.11 ( Download .dmg from mysql official site

Python – 2.7.2 ( By default install)

pip list:

altgraph (0.9)
argparse (1.2.1)
bdist-mpkg (0.4.4)
bonjour-py (0.3)
Django (1.6.5)
djangotoolbox (1.6.2)
gntp (1.0.2)
macholib (1.4.2)
modulegraph (0.9.1)
mongoengine (0.8.7)
numpy (1.6.1)
pip (1.5.6)
py2app (0.6.3)
pymongo (2.7.1)

pyOpenSSL (0.13)
PyRSS2Gen (1.0.0)
python-dateutil (1.5)
setuptools (5.1)
simplejson (3.5.2)
Twisted (12.0.0)
virtualenv (1.11.6)
wsgiref (0.1.2)
xattr (0.6.2)
zope.interface (3.5.1)

 

So when I tried to install mysql-python, i got different type of error. I tried to install from source file version 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.5 etc.

 

I tried to install brew command.

 

Brew Command Error: 

Downloading/unpacking mysql-python
Downloading MySQL-python-1.2.5.zip (108kB): 108kB downloaded
Running setup.py (path:/private/tmp/pip_build_root/mysql-python/setup.py) egg_info for package mysql-python
sh: mysql_config: command not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “<string>”, line 17, in <module>
File “/private/tmp/pip_build_root/mysql-python/setup.py”, line 17, in <module>
metadata, options = get_config()
File “setup_posix.py”, line 43, in get_config
libs = mysql_config(“libs_r”)
File “setup_posix.py”, line 25, in mysql_config
raise EnvironmentError(“%s not found” % (mysql_config.path,))
EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
sh: mysql_config: command not found

Traceback (most recent call last):

File “<string>”, line 17, in <module>

File “/private/tmp/pip_build_root/mysql-python/setup.py”, line 17, in <module>

metadata, options = get_config()

File “setup_posix.py”, line 43, in get_config

libs = mysql_config(“libs_r”)

File “setup_posix.py”, line 25, in mysql_config

raise EnvironmentError(“%s not found” % (mysql_config.path,))

EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found

—————————————-
Cleaning up…
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /private/tmp/pip_build_root/mysql-python
Storing debug log for failure in /Users/macbook/Library/Logs/pip.log

 

 

Manually Installation Error: (mysql-python 1.2.3)

MacBooks-MacBook-Pro:MySQL-python-1.2.3 macbook$ sudo python setup.py install
running install
Checking .pth file support in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/
/usr/bin/python -E -c pass
TEST PASSED: /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ appears to support .pth files
running bdist_egg
running egg_info
writing MySQL_python.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing top-level names to MySQL_python.egg-info/top_level.txt
writing dependency_links to MySQL_python.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
reading manifest file ‘MySQL_python.egg-info/SOURCES.txt’
reading manifest template ‘MANIFEST.in’
warning: no files found matching ‘MANIFEST’
warning: no files found matching ‘ChangeLog’
warning: no files found matching ‘GPL’
writing manifest file ‘MySQL_python.egg-info/SOURCES.txt’
installing library code to build/bdist.macosx-10.8-intel/egg
running install_lib
running build_py
copying MySQLdb/release.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.8-intel-2.7/MySQLdb
running build_ext
building ‘_mysql’ extension
clang -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -dynamic -g -Os -pipe -fno-common -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -mno-fused-madd -DENABLE_DTRACE -DMACOSX -DNDEBUG -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wshorten-64-to-32 -DNDEBUG -g -Os -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -DENABLE_DTRACE -pipe -Dversion_info=(1,2,3,’final’,0) -D__version__=1.2.3 -I/usr/local/mysql/include -I/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7 -c _mysql.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.8-intel-2.7/_mysql.o -Os -g -fno-strict-aliasing -arch x86_64
clang: error: unknown argument: ‘-mno-fused-madd’ [-Wunused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future]
clang: note: this will be a hard error (cannot be downgraded to a warning) in the future
error: command ‘clang’ failed with exit status 1

 

 

 

Installing MySQL through brew (even if you don’t use the brew version later) would probably solve it. mysql-python package requires the mysql_config command available on $PATH. You can also find this command (it’s on your mysql bin directory) and manually add to path.

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