Get Postgres and psycopg2 to work on OSX Mavericks 10.9.4

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-- 1) Install Postgres.app, seriously (Before doing this I was wrestling with a socket error connecting to the DB that many people have on StackOverflow etc. but multiple remedies didn't work. Feel free to waste time on this but I stopped wasting time on it this way.)
-- 2) Append path to Postgres.app bin directory to end of $PATH in .bash_profile
-- 3) At this point running py scripts that include psycopg2 will work, but import
--    in the (Anaconda, (YMMV with other Py shells)) Python shell will not, so ...
-- 4) $ sudo ln -s /Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/9.3/lib/libssl.1.0.0.dylib /opt/local/lib/libssl.1.0.0.dylib
-- 5) $ sudo ln -s /Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/9.3/lib/libcrypto.1.0.0.dylib /opt/local/lib/libcrypto.1.0.0.dylib
-- (Anaconda, (YMMV with other Py shells)) Psycopg2 in Python shell can't find and link to these dylibs that 
-- are part of Postgres distro unless there are sym links in the fs under the same user
-- that launches the Python shell
-- 6) Use the default data directory in Postgres.app
-- 7) createdb -h localhost
-- This gets past error where launching the db gives error:
--  psql: FATAL:  database "<USER>" does not exist