Integrating MySQL with Python in Windows

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I am finding it difficult to use MySQL with Python in my windows system   I am currently using Python 2 6  I have tried to compile MySQL-python-1 2 3b1  which is supposed to work for Python 2 6    source code using the provided setup scripts  The setup script runs and it doesn t report any error but it doesn t generate  mysql module    I have also tried setting up MySQL for Python 2 5 with out success  The problem with using 2 5 is that Python 2 5 is compiled with visual studio 2003  I installed it using the provided binaries   I have visual studio 2005 on my windows system  Hence setuptools fails to generate  mysql module   Any help

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What about pymysql   It s pure Python  and I ve used it on Windows with considerable success  bypassing the difficulties of compiling and installing mysql-python

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The precompiled binaries on http   www lfd uci edu  gohlke pythonlibs  mysql-python is just worked for me    Open MySQL python-1 2 5-cp27-none-win amd64 whl file with zip extractor program  Copy the contents to C  Python27 Lib site-packages

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You can also use pyodbc with the MySQL Connector ODBC to use MySQL on Windows   Unixodbc is also available to make the code compatible on Linux   Pyodbc uses the standard Python DB API 2 0 so if you stick with that switching between MySQL PostgreSQL SQLite ODBC JDBC drivers etc  should be relatively painless

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There are Windows binaries for MySQL-Python  2 4  amp  2 5  available on Sourceforge   Have you tried those

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On Python 3 4 I ve installed mysqlclient from http   www lfd uci edu  gohlke pythonlibs  with pip install mysqlclient and it s working

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This may read like your grandpa givin advice  but all answers here did not mention the best way  go nd install ActivePython instead of python org windows binaries  I was really wondering for a long time why Python development on windows was such a pita - until I installed activestate python  I am not affiliated with them  It is just the plain truth  Write it on every wall  Python development on Windows   ActiveState   you then just pypm install mysql-python and everything works smoothly  no compile orgy  no strange errors  no terror  Just start coding and doing real work after five minutes   This is the only way to go on windows  Really

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As Python newbie learning the Python ecosystem I ve just completed this    Install setuptools instructions Install MySQL 5 1  Download the 97 6MB MSI from here You can t use the essentials version because it doesnt contain the C libraries  Be sure to select a custom install  and mark the development tools   libraries for installation as that is not done by default  This is needed to get the C header files  You can verify you have done this correctly by looking in your install directory for a folder named  include   E G C  Program Files MySQL MySQL Server 5 1 include  It should have a whole bunch of  h files  Install Microsoft Visual Studio C   Express 2008 from here This is needed to get a C compiler  Open up a command line as administrator  right click on the Cmd shortcut and then  run as administrator   Be sure to open a fresh window after you have installed those things or your path won t be updated and the install will still fail  From the command prompt   easy install -b C  temp sometempdir mysql-python  That will fail - which is OK   Now open site cfg in your temp directory C  temp sometempdir and edit the  registry key  setting to   registry key   SOFTWARE MySQL AB MySQL Server 5 1  now CD into your temp dir and   python setup py clean  python setup py install   You should be ready to rock  Here is a super simple script to start off learning the Python DB API for you - if you need it

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If you are looking for Python 3 2 this seems the best solution I found so far    for Python 2 4 - 3 2 PyMySQL  for Python 2 3 - 2 6 MySQL for Python    Source  http   wiki python org moin MySQL

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You can try to use myPySQL  It s really easy to use  no compilation for windows  and even if you need to compile it for any reason  you only need Python and Visual C installed  not mysql    http   code google com p mypysql   Good luck

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Because I am running python in a  pylons pyramid  virtualenv  I could not run the binary installers  helpfully  linked to previously    I had problems following the steps with Willie s answer  but I determined that the problem is  probably  that I am running windows 7 x64 install  which puts the registry key for mysql in a slightly different location  specifically in my case  note  I am running version 5 5  in   HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Wow6432Node MySQL AB MySQL Server 5 5    HOWEVER   HKEY LOCAL MACHINE   cannot be included in the path or it will fail   Also  I had to do a restart between steps 3 and 4   After working through all of this  IMO it would have been smarter to run the entire python dev environment from cygwin

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upvoted itsadok s answer because it led me to the installation for python 2 7 as well  which is located here  http   www codegood com archives 129

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Got sick of the installation troubles with MySQLdb and tried pymysql instead   Easy setup   git clone https   github com petehunt PyMySQL git python setup py install   And APIs are pretty much the same

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You might want to also consider making use of Cygwin  it has mysql python libraries in the repository

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Download page for python-mysqldb  The page includes binaries for 32 and 64 bit versions of for Python 2 5  2 6 and 2 7    There s also discussion on getting rid of the deprecation warning   UPDATE  This is an old answer  Currently  I would recommend using PyMySQL  It s pure python  so it supports all OSes equally  it s almost a drop-in replacement for mysqldb  and it also works with python 3  The best way to install it is using pip  You can install it from here  more instructions here   and then run   pip install pymysql

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You re not the only person having problems with Python 2 6 and MySQL  http   blog contriving net 2009 03 04 using-python-26-mysql-on-windows-is-nearly-impossible    Here s an explanation how it should run under Python 2 5 http   i justrealized com 2008 04 08 how-to-install-python-and-django-in-windows-vista  Good luck

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I found a location were one person had successfully built mysql for python2 6  sharing the link  http   www technicalbard com files MySQL-python-1 2 2 win32-py2 6 exe     you might see a warning while import MySQLdb which is fine and that won   t hurt anything   C  Python26 lib site-packages MySQLdb  init   py 34  DeprecationWarning  the sets module is deprecated from sets import ImmutableSet

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