Maciej Konieczny aka narf narfdotpl

MySQLdb, Python 2.5 and OS X 10.6

I wasted too much time trying to make MySQLdb work with Python 2.5 (mysteriously it worked fine with 2.7). I thought I'll share my experience.

I installed MySQLdb normally with pip install MySQL-python (yeah, ingenious name) and there were no problems. But every time I imported it, I got following error:

To fix plotting in Octave.app in latest Snow Leopard (10.6.6 at the moment of writing) change /Applications/Gnuplot.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnuplot as follows:

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ ROOT=`(cd "${BASE}" 2>/dev/null && pwd)`
 # startup the Gnuplot program.
 GNUPLOT_HOME="${ROOT}"
 PATH="${ROOT}/bin:${PATH}"
-DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="${ROOT}/lib:${DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH}"

+DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="${ROOT}/lib"

	~ $ python
	Python 2.6.4 (r264:75821M, Oct 27 2009, 19:48:32)
	[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)] on darwin
	Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
	>>> from dis import dis
	>>> def wT():
	... while True:
	... pass
	...
	>>> dis(wT)

	%h1 edit your profile
	- form_for @user, :url => {:action => :update} do \|form\|
	%div= form.text_field :name
	= error_message_on @user, :name, 'name '

	%div= submit_tag 'save'

	#!/bin/zsh
	# This hook is run after every virtualenv is activated.

	# prefix prompt with... umm... pink, I think? name of virtualenv
	PS1=$'%{\e[0;35m%}$(basename $VIRTUAL_ENV)%{\e[0m%} '$_OLD_VIRTUAL_PS1

	Python 2.7 (r27:82500, Jul 6 2010, 21:27:24)
	[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5659)] on darwin
	Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
	>>> s = 'foo'
	>>> s is s.lower()
	False
	>>> s is s.replace('a', 'b')
	True
	>>> s is s.replace('o', 'o')
	False

	* Demonic Noodles
	*
	* Author: Maciej Konieczny <[email protected]>
	* Website: http://gist.github.com/639250
	* License: public domain <http://unlicense.org/>
	* Background: My first Fortran program; written as a Programming
	* Paradigms assignment. We were supposed to generate
	* a creature picture in Fortran 77.

	# copy to clipboard links to rars hosted at rapidshare found at given url
	rs() {
	curl $1 2> /dev/null \| grep -Po 'http://rapidshare.com/.*?rar' \| pbcopy
	}

	-- mysql unicode ffs
	DROP DATABASE foo;
	CREATE DATABASE foo CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

	#!/usr/bin/env sh

	sudo curl -L http://3.narf.pl/iTunes.icns > /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/iTunes.icns
	echo 'relog, remove itunes from dock, go to /Applications and drag it back'