Undefined symbol __pure_virtual when importing MySQLdb

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antonyliu2002 at yahoo.com wrote:

> I downloaded MySQL-python-1.2.1 from SourceForge and installed it on a
> Mandrake system (Mandrake Linux 9.2 3.3.1-2mdk on linux2).
> 
> The installation was successful.  The gcc version is 3.3.
> 
> My Python version is 2.4.2.  When I import MySQLdb, I get an error
> which says that __pure_virtual is an undefined symbol.
> 
> Look:
> 
>>>> import MySQLdb
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "/usr/local/python2.4/site-packages/MySQLdb/__init__.py", line
> 19, in ?
>     import _mysql
> ImportError: /usr/local/python2.4/site-packages/_mysql.so: undefined
> symbol: __pure_virtual
> 
> By the way, mysql (5.0.27-standard)is running OK on the Mandrake
> system. Look:
> 
> [antonyliu at myhost antonyliu]$ mysql -u root -p
> Enter password:
> Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
> Your MySQL connection id is 13 to server version: 5.0.27-standard
> 
> Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.
> 
> mysql>
> 
> I have googled hard, and did see someone asking the same question, but
> haven't found a good solution to this problem.  Could anyone give me a
> hint?  Thanks a lot!


Hi,

I can only say that it runs fine under Mandriva 2007 ... and that Mandriva
went to gcc V4 long after 9.2 ... maybe an issue here.

Regards,

hg