MySQLdb installation and bug solving

MySQLdb

All the steps are needed because of library dependencies: 

1.- Download and Install mysql from: http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/
2.- install mysql-python
  a) If you install it using pip install mysql-python: it will be installed at /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/...
  b) If you install it downloading the src and building it, it is installed at /LibraryFrameworks/Python.framework/Version/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages
      i) This is the option that worked for me because the system had 2.6 but I was using python 2.7. 
      ii) Download the code from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/?source=dlp
      iii) python setup.py build
      iv) sudo python setup.py install

check installation:

$ python

>>> import MySQLdb

The next error may occur:

import _mysql
ImportError: dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MySQL_python-1.2.4b4-py2.7-macosx-10.6-intel.egg/_mysql.so, 2): Library not loaded: libmysqlclient.18.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MySQL_python-1.2.4b4-py2.7-macosx-10.6-intel.egg/_mysql.so
Reason: image not found

 
solution: sudo ln -s /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib /usr/local/lib