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I am trying to go through the django docs tutorial and having a problem syncing mysql. On the command python manage.py syncdb I get the following error (note I'm running in windows 7):

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File "C:\python27\lib\site-packages\django\db\backends\mysql\base.py", line 14, in <module>
raise Improperlyconfigured("Error loading Mysqldb module: %s" % e) 
django.core.excepions.Improperlyconfigured: Error loading Mysqldb module: No module named mySQLdb

I have initialized the db in setting.py as:

'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql', 
'NAME': 'mysite',    #the name I gave in Mysql with 'CREATE DATABASE mysite;'                 
'USER': 'root',                      
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',   # as set in MysqlInstanceConfig
'HOST': '',                     
'PORT': '',

So how do I get syncdb to run correctly? What does the missing module error mean and how do I correct it?

Daniel Nill
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You need to install the python mysql library. Here is a django-related guide to do this on windows

jm_toball
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You have to install the mySQLdb module.

Martin Thurau
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You most probably haven't installed the Python module that handles the mysql connections. You can install it through the Cheeseshop with pip or easy_install and it's called MySQL-python.

Density 21.5
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