Python 32-bit can't find MySQLdb module on OS X Lion

Question

I've been tearing my hair out and trying the solutions to getting Python and MySQL to play nicely with 64-bit architecture, and the solution seems to have all components installed/run as 32-bit.

My issue is that for some reason, running Python in 32-bit mode via $ arch -i386 /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2.7

and then

import MySQLdb

gives me

import MySQLdb Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ImportError: No module named MySQLdb

However, when I run python in 64-bit mode and trying 'import MySQLdb' I get the dreaded:

import MySQLdb Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-intel/egg/MySQLdb/ init .py", line 19, in File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-intel/egg/_mysql.py", line 7, in File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-intel/egg/_mysql.py", line 6, in bootstrap ImportError: dlopen(/Users/me/.python-eggs/MySQL_python-1.2.3-py2.7-macosx-10.6-intel.egg-tmp/_mysql.so, 2): no suitable image found. Did find: /Users/me/.python-eggs/MySQL_python-1.2.3-py2.7-macosx-10.6-intel.egg-tmp/_mysql.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture

So my question is, why can't Python find the module in 32-bit mode? the "wrong architecture" error leads me to believe that MySQL-python is installed as 32-bit, so I don't think it's that 32-bit Python can't "see" the module. I have both the python and the .python-eggs path on my $PATH in .bash_profile, so what am I missing here?

Answer 1

Not exactly an answer, but have you tried just to pip install MySQL-python ? If you have some mysql_config in your path, it should compile just fine.

– I am using a Python 2.7.2 via homebrew , a MAMP 2.0 installation, running on 10.6. with a 64bit kernel.