Getting Error while building mysql for python on Mac OS X El Capitan - mysql

Question

I read some of the related topics and tried to implement those solutions to my situation but still I get the following error after this command :
(project2_env) Efe-MacBook-Air:MySQL-python-1.2.4b4 efe$ python setup.py build
The Error message is :
Extracting in /var/folders/rv/vbf7xqh1601_xjkrn85w7hp00000gn/T/tmpptpsggg7
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/efe/virtualenvs/downloads/MySQL-python-1.2.4b4/distribute_setup.py", line 143, in use_setuptools
raise ImportError
ImportError
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 7, in <module>
use_setuptools()
File "/Users/efe/virtualenvs/downloads/MySQL-python-1.2.4b4/distribute_setup.py", line 145, in use_setuptools
return _do_download(version, download_base, to_dir, download_delay)
File "/Users/efe/virtualenvs/downloads/MySQL-python-1.2.4b4/distribute_setup.py", line 125, in _do_download
_build_egg(egg, tarball, to_dir)
File "/Users/efe/virtualenvs/downloads/MySQL-python-1.2.4b4/distribute_setup.py", line 99, in _build_egg
_extractall(tar)
File "/Users/efe/virtualenvs/downloads/MySQL-python-1.2.4b4/distribute_setup.py", line 486, in _extractall
self.chown(tarinfo, dirpath)
TypeError: chown() missing 1 required positional argument: 'numeric_owner'
Edit: I reinstalled homebrew, then I run this following command. That is successfully installed.
brew install mysql
However, I cannot still import MySQLdb in python.

Answer 1

As it is more complicated than the previous answer, i won't told you about the custom installation of python mysql.
Found this, the Jude's way :
Install mysql via homebrew, then you can install mysql python via pip.
xcode-select --install
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
//don't know how to install mysql via homebrew, but it should be done here
pip install MySQL-python
https://stackoverflow.com/a/25356073/6660122

Answer 2

Taken from the Python2 doc, still relevant in 3.5 :
"Alternate installation: the user scheme
This scheme is designed to be the most convenient solution for users that don’t have write permission to the global site-packages directory or don’t want to install into it. It is enabled with a simple option: "
python setup.py install --user
Could help in your case.
Notice there are different scheme to use : --home, or --prefix and --exec-prefix, or --install-base and --install-platbase

Answer 3

Finally I found a solution for myself and by myself. I gave up using directly MySQLdb library and instead of that, I installed PyMySQL. By the way I had already installed MySQL Workbench before, so mysql server was already running.
Here is what I do step by step. I hope someone can get benefit from it.
1) Create a virtual environment:
virtualenv virt1
2) Make your virtual environment activated:
source virt1/bin/activate
3) Now, you are in your virtual environment. Install PyMySQL:
pip install PyMySQL
4) Now, try whether your MySQL connection is OK or not with a simple py executable:
#!/usr/bin/python
import pymysql.cursors
# Connect to the database
connection = pymysql.connect(host='localhost',
user='YourDBuserName',
password='YourDBpassword',
db='YourDBname',
charset='utf8',
cursorclass=pymysql.cursors.DictCursor)
try:
with connection.cursor() as cursor:
# Read a single record
sql = "SELECT `id`, `name` FROM `YourTableName` WHERE `id`=%s"
cursor.execute(sql, (1,))
result = cursor.fetchone()
print(result)
finally:
connection.close()
5) You should see that your first row from the table appears on the screen.
Note: The part "import pymysql.cursors" could be tricky. First, I wrote as "import PyMySQL.cursors" and that didn't work!