easy_install with MySQL-python

[Ske]

Mike Driscoll wrote:
> 
> On Mar 3, 7:44 am, Ske <calypso-b... at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Let me apologise in advance if I’m missing something obvious, I’m still
>> very
>> new to this!
>>
>> I’m attempting to install MySQL-python in Python2.6 on Windows. On
>> running
>> "easy_install MySQL-python" I get a "The system cannot find the file
>> specified" message. Full output is below:
>>
>> Searching for MySQL-python
>> Readinghttp://pypi.python.org/simple/MySQL-python/
>> Readinghttp://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python
>> Readinghttp://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/
>> Best match: MySQL-python 1.2.3b1
>> Downloadinghttp://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mysql-python/MySQL-python
>> -1.2.3b1.tar.gz
>> Processing MySQL-python-1.2.3b1.tar.gz
>> Running MySQL-python-1.2.3b1\setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir
>> c:\docume~1\michae
>> ~1\locals~1\temp\easy_install-bmrwgu\MySQL-python-1.2.3b1\egg-dist-tmp-_uhixz
>> error: The system cannot find the file specified
>>
>> I've really no idea how to solve this, and searches turn up nothing of
>> help.
>> Any ideas?
>> Thanks!
>> --
> 
> It may be that the egg is incompatible with Python 2.6. Looking at the
> last location that easy_install downloads from, I found that there is
> no 2.6 egg there (see
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=22307&package_id=15775).
> 
> I've had some goofy issues with compressed files being weird. Try
> downloading the source yourself, unzipping it, then navigating to that
> folder via the command line and running something like this:
> 
> python setup.py install
> 
> If your python isn't on the path, you'll have to do something like
> this instead:
> 
> c:\python26\python.exe setup.py install
> 
> Hopefully that will get you going.
> 
> Mike
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> 
Thanks for your help, Mike.

On running "python setup.py install" in the extracted directory, I get this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 16, in <module>
    metadata, options = get_config()
  File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\MySQL-python-1.2.2\setup_windows.py",
line
 7, in get_config
    serverKey = _winreg.OpenKey(_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
options['registry_ke
y'])
WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified
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