Geert JM Vanderkelen

Even better is to use the pip installer: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip

$ pip install mysql-connector

(pip does the same job as setuptools, but without messing with the system Python install the way setuptools does)

Hi Geert, this is my first time with Python and thanks you I’ve found a practical way to install MySQL connector on Python but Im having difficulties, so if you can help me…

I have used pip to install the connector but when I try to install MySQLdb it gives me this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:\Python27\downloads\MySQL-python-1.2.3\setup.py”, line 15, in

metadata, options = get_config()
File “C:\Python27\downloads\MySQL-python-1.2.3\setup_windows.py”, line 7, in g
et_config
serverKey = _winreg.OpenKey(_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, options['registry_ke
y'])
WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified

I’m using Windows x64 and I have created on regedit under Wow6432Node a Python node, the same created by the installer under SOFTWARE. I have added C:\Python27\Scripts on my PATH

Any idea?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Hi Geert,

there seems to be a problem with mysql-connector and pypi:

$ easy_install mysql-connector
Searching for mysql-connector
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/mysql-connector/
Couldn’t find index page for ‘mysql-connector’ (maybe misspelled?)
Scanning index of all packages (this may take a while)
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/
No local packages or download links found for mysql-connector
error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse(‘mysql-connector’)

This seems to have been going on for quite some while: any idea for when it’ll be fixed? if at all?

thanks,
Marco

BTW – pip install fails just as well:

$ pip install mysql-connector
Downloading/unpacking mysql-connector
Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement mysql-connector
No distributions at all found for mysql-connector
Storing complete log in /home/marco/.pip/pip.log