installing mysqldb for django (jython)?

Question

I installed jython, django on my windows system. I successfully created a project mysite. Now after updating settings in settings.py. i ran 'manage.py' and got the error- Import error - "no module named mysqldb". now, i downloaded mysqldb (which is for python, but i thought it will work for jython also) and i tried to install it. but now i am getting the following error- import error - "no module named '_winreg'".

what does it mean? how to get around this problem? i am a completely new bee to jython and django, please help.

Answer 1

MySQLdb is the CPython MySQL library, so it won't work with Jython.

You'll want to use zxJDBC to connect to MySQL from Jython: http://jython.org/Project/userguide.html#database-connectivity-in-jython

You'll need to add the MySQL jdbc jar to your classpath

Answer 2

You'll need to install django-jython in order to get Django working on Jython. Note that it will use zxJDBC and not MySQLdb.