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Why can't easy install get mysql?

I am using Windows 7 and trying to install mysql-python.

> easy_install MySQL-python  
Searching for MySQL-python  
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/MySQL-python/  
Reading http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/  
Reading http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python  
Best match: MySQL-python 1.2.3  
Downloading http://download.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mysql-python/MySQL-python-1.2.3.tar.gz  
Processing MySQL-python-1.2.3.tar.gz  
Running MySQL-python-1.2.3\setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir
c:\users\develo~1\appdata\local\temp\easy_install-gwhmn3\MySQL-python-1.2.3\egg-dist-tmp-co6v2g  
error: The system cannot find the file specified

There is an error and it is not installed.

Solution

  • Since you are using Windows, why not just goto python-mysql installation files and download the installer and install it.