MySQLdb will only import for root

[martinnorth]

Hi,

I am running Python and MySQL on Ubuntu and have installed MySQLdb. If I 
try to import MySQLdb I get the following error:

ActivePython 2.5.2.2 (ActiveState Software Inc.) based on
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Mar 27 2008, 16:42:08)
[GCC 3.3.1 (SuSE Linux)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import MySQLdb
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named MySQLdb

But if I lrun python as the root user it imports fine. Can anyone 
suggest what might be wrong with the installation? Or is there nothing 
wrong? I haven't seen any examples that mentioned being root to import a 
module.

Martin