[BioPython] Help with installing MySQLdb

[Andrew Nunberg]

Thanks,
my DateTime has no __version__ attribute, although I can see its coming  
from the package I installed (it does have the __file__ attribute)

Anyone else have any ideas?


On Thursday, August 21, 2003, at 11:41 AM, Brad Chapman wrote:

> Hey Andy;
>
>> I have successfully installed MySQLdb on my mac and then tried to
>> install it on a red hat 7.2 machine
>> I installed all the prerequisite libraries for biopyton, but when i  
>> try
>> import MySQLdb on the redhat machine i get:
>> *** You don't have the (right) mxDateTime binaries installed !
>
> I don't exactly know what the problem is since I don't use red hat
> and all that, but I guess I'd just listen to the error message and
> look at what version of mxDateTime you have installed -- if you even
> have it installed at all.
>
> I don't know what version MySQLdb needs (the documentation doesn't
> seem to say from a quick glance) but the easiest thing to do is just
> grab the latest version:
>
> http://www.egenix.com/files/python/eGenix-mx-Extensions.html#Download- 
> mxBASE
>
> There are Linux RPMs for the latest version 2.0.5.
>
>> is this a path problem? that is python is looking at an older binary
>> first?
>
> If you have it installed and it's not finding it (or finding the
> wrong version) you could check by doing:
>
>>>> from mx import DateTime
>>>> DateTime.__version__
> '2.0.3'
>
> (Although I have 2.0.4 installed, so maybe the version variable
> isn't the best ever).
>
> You can also find out where the DateTime is being imported from
> using __file__:
>
>>>> DateTime.__file__
> '/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/mx/DateTime/__init__.pyc'
>
> Hope this helps.
> Brad
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