pyMySQL-wrapper =============== A simple wrapper for 3rd-party python package - MySQLdb Prerequisites: 1) Install python 2.7.x to specified path of the target box 2) Install mysql server instance on the same box (mysql instance is needed because mysql_config will be used when setup MySQL-python) 3) Download MySQL-python from here: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/MySQL-python 4) unzip MySQL-python-1.2.5.zip (for example), enter the unpacked directory and run the following commands: shell> python setup.py build shell> python setup.py install When steps above finished successfully, we can found MySQL_python-1.2.5-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg (or .egg file with similar name) in python_install_path/lib/python2.7/site-packages/, we can also found './MySQL_python-1.2.5-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg' has been included in file named 'easy-install.pth' Just enjoy it now ~ ^_^