python - Installing MySQLdb on Mac OS X

Question

I've spent several hours trying to install MySQLdb (the Python library) on Mac OS X Snow Leopard. I'm using these instructions from SO. I keep getting an error, so I've tried using MacPorts (as one of the answers to that question advises), but I continue to get the same error. Can anybody help?

import MySQLdb
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/MySQLdb/__init__.py", line 19, in <module>
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/_mysql.py", line 7, in <module>
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/_mysql.py", line 6, in __bootstrap__
ImportError: dlopen(/Users/josephmornin/.python-egg-cache/MySQL_python-1.2.3-py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal.egg-tmp/_mysql.so, 2): no suitable image found.  
  Did find:
    /Users/josephmornin/.python-egg-cache/MySQL_python-1.2.3-py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal.egg-tmp/_mysql.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture

Answer 1

sudo pip install mysql-python worked for me in 10.8.1.