MySQLdb will only import for root

[martinnorth]

Peter Otten wrote:
> martinnorth wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> You have probably installed two versions of Python. You can verify that by
> typing
> 
> $ which python
> 
> and
> 
> $ sudo which python
> 
> I suspect that root sees the python that comes with Ubuntu and that has
> MySQLdb installed while the normal user sees ActiveState's Python. 
> 
> Peter
> 

Thanks Peter, that was it. Located the ActiveState directory and removed 
it. Now the module imports for all users.

Martin