在centos6.4环境下安装python MySQLdb

1) 下载MySQL-python
$wget https://pypi.python.org/packages/a5/e9/51b544da85a36a68debe7a7091f068d802fc515a3a202652828c73453cad/MySQL-python-1.2.5.zip#md5=654f75b302db6ed8dc5a898c625e030c

2) 解压缩
$unzip MySQL-python-1.2.5.zip
$cd MySQL-python-1.2.5

3）修改mysql配置路径， 否则提示找不到配置文件
修改 setup_posix.py 文件
vim setup_posix.py

修改 27行 mysql_config.path = "mysql_config"
mysql_config.path = "/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config"

4）安装python MySQLdb
$python setup.py build
$sudo python setup.py install

5）测试$ python
Python 2.7.11 (default, Aug  6 2016, 01:58:12) 
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-17)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import MySQLdb
/usr/local/python2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MySQL_python-1.2.5-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/_mysql.py:3: UserWarning: Module _mysql was already imported from /usr/local/python2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MySQL_python-1.2.5-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/_mysql.pyc, but /home/spider/develop/MySQL-python-1.2.5 is being added to sys.path
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "MySQLdb/__init__.py", line 19, in <module>
    import _mysql
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/_mysql.py", line 7, in <module>
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/_mysql.py", line 6, in __bootstrap__

ImportError: libmysqlclient.so.18: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

提示找不到   libmysqlclient.so.18 

解决办法：
sudo ln -s /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.so.18 /usr/lib64/libmysqlclient.so.18

6) 重新测试，成功：

$ python
Python 2.7.11 (default, Aug  6 2016, 01:58:12) 
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-17)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import MySQLdb
>>> 
 

第二种方法：

yum install python-devel mysql-devel gcc -y
pip install MySQL-python==1.2.5