A little off topic, but I'm not sure where else to get
practical feedback on this. I've got a booking system that
will be run on OS X with a local database. I'm a relatively
experienced python developer, but an os x newbie, and would
like the whole thing to be as idiot proof as possible. Anyone
have suggestions on what they have found to work well for
that sort of thing? I'm used to using MySQL for web dev but
installing the python mysql drivers on os x was painful.
Embedded MySQLdb setup is painful, but not impossible. (Less painful on OS
X than Windows, in my experience.) I have (admittedly several years old
now) instructions at
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note that I have tried to use later versions of both MySQL and MySQL for
Python than the ones discussed in my documentation unsuccessfully, but my
last attempt was probably over a year ago now.
But you're probably better off changing to SQLLite, which I believe is part
of Python 2.5, if your SQL isn't too specialized for MySQL.
David