Connect to MySQL with Python
Posted on July 25, 2015
##Connect to MySQL with Python in MAC
Installation environment: OS X Yosemite, Python 2.7.9
The official API MySQLdb is contained in the package MySQL-python. Therefore, when using pip to install the MySQLdb, just simply execute the command in Terminal:pip install MySQL-python.
Solve an error Reason: image not found
After installing the MySQL-python successfully, let’s import this package in the Python to connect to MySQL database. However, an error as follows may occur:
>>> import MySQLdb
/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/MySQL_python-1.2.3-py2.7-macosx-10.7-intel.egg/_mysql.py:3: UserWarning: Module _mysql was already imported from /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/MySQL_python-1.2.3-py2.7-macosx-10.7-intel.egg/_mysql.pyc, but /Users/***/Downloads/MySQL-python-1.2.3
is being added to sys.path
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "MySQLdb/__init__.py", line 19, in <module>
import _mysql
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.7-intel/egg/_mysql.py", line 7, in <module>
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.7-intel/egg/_mysql.py", line 6, in __bootstrap__
ImportError: dlopen(/Users/***/.python-eggs/MySQL_python-1.2.3-py2.7-macosx-10.7-intel.egg-tmp/_mysql.so, 2): Library not loaded: libmysqlclient.18.dylib
Referenced from: /Users/***/.python-eggs/MySQL_python-1.2.3-py2.7-macosx-10.7-intel.egg-tmp/_mysql.so
Reason: image not found
Don’t worry. The solution is easy. Just open the terminal and execute command:
> sudo ln -s /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib
> sudo ln -s /usr/local/mysql/lib /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysqlThen re-open your Python and import the package again, I think the problem will probably be solved. Yeah! :)