I am just re-inventing the wheel here. I had this article on this site but the previous hosting was expired and my database file was corrupted, so I had to do this again. And I also know at least one person will be looking for that information soon, so I am contributing to the community again in some simple steps,
- Download the latest version of MySQLdb
- Locate mysql_config
locate mysql_config
- Open site.cfg and update mysql_config path
- Run
sudo python setup.py build
- Run
sudo python setup.py install
Now if you import MySQLdb in your python CLI it should just work fine. Let me know if you still have some problem. I will try to reshape my reinvented wheel.