Comments on: Using Python 2.6 + MySQL on Windows is nearly impossible

By: Pooja

Pooja — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:18:57 +0000

Thank you very much. It works!!!

Contriving » MySQL and Python 2.6 on Windows, Redux — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:39:57 +0000

[...] I noted before, getting a version of MySQLdb that works for Python 2.6 on Windows is an exercise in furstration. [...]

Dustin — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:24:27 +0000

Thanks for that info, Anonymous!

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:50:17 +0000

Instructions for building MySQL 5.1.34 with Python 2.6:

Venkatesan Sundramurthy — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:07:55 +0000

…forgot to add a comment, you might see a warning while import MySQLdb which is fine and that won’t hurt anything,

C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\MySQLdb\__init__.py:34: DeprecationWarning: the sets module is deprecated
from sets import ImmutableSet

Venkatesan Sundramurthy — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:05:08 +0000

Hi, I found a location were one person had successfully built mysql for python2.6, sharing the link,
http://www.technicalbard.com/files/MySQL-python-1.2.2.win32-py2.6.exe