
For me this was the “Mac OS X 10.5 x86″ package: mysql-5.1. The following might work: Download and install MySQL ‘pkg’ format install for Mac OS X.Though I am using ActivePython, the issues should be the same for a Python from. What follows are the steps (slightly different) that I needed to get MySQL-python to install. Install MySQL-python on Mac OS X (leopard).How to install Django with MySQL on Mac OS X.

Here are some links that discuss getting MySQL-python to build on Mac OS X: Just a quick note on getting MySQL-python (aka import MySQLdb) 1.2.3c1 (the current latest version) to build and install on Mac OS X, because I hit something that I didn’t see mentioned in a number of similar posts.
