Optimizing SSD on OSX

http://poller.se/2010/08/optimizing-mac-os-x-for-ssd-drives/

Django and MySQL for Python on OSX Lion

Assuming Python and MySQL is already installed:

References:

http://birdhouse.org/blog/2009/02/21/python-mysql-connections-on-mac-os/

http://mechanicalgirl.com/post/installing-django-with-mysql-on-mac-os-x/

python setup.py build

sh: mysql_config: command not found

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "setup.py", line 15, in

metadata, options = get_config()

File "/Users/dean/Downloads/MySQL-python-1.2.3/setup_posix.py", line 43, in get_config

libs = mysql_config("libs_r")

File "/Users/dean/Downloads/MySQL-python-1.2.3/setup_posix.py", line 24, in mysql_config

raise EnvironmentError("%s not found" % (mysql_config.path,))

EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found

If you are experiencing this error, follow these steps found here to resolve:

Excerpt:

In my case, I edited the setup_posix.py thusly:

# mysql_config.path = "mysql_config" mysql_config.path = "/usr/local/mysql-5.0.45-osx10.4-i686/bin/mysql_config"  

Re-issue command:

python setup.py clean

ARCHFLAGS='-arch x86_64' python setup.py build

ARCHFLAGS='-arch x86_64' python setup.py install

sudo ln -s /usr/local/mysql/lib/ /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql

Then test:

>>> import MySQLdb