Install custom modules in a python virtual enviroment

Question

I am doing some pylons work in a virtual python enviorment, I want to use MySQL with SQLalchemy but I can't install the MySQLdb module on my virtual enviorment, I can't use easyinstall because I am using a version that was compiled for python 2.6 in a .exe format, I tried running the install from inside the virtual enviorment but that did not work, any sugestions?

Answer 1

Ok Got it all figured out, After I installed the module on my normal python 2.6 install I went into my Python26 folder and low and behold I happened to find a file called MySQL-python-wininst which happened to be a list of all of the installed module files. Basicly it was two folders called MySQLdb and another called MySQL_python-1.2.2-py2.6.egg-info as well as three other files: _mysql.pyd, _mysql_exceptions.py, _mysql_exceptions.pyc. So I went into the folder where they were located (Python26/Lib/site-packages) and copied them to virtualenv's site-packages folder (env/Lib/site-packages) and the module was fully functional!

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