trying to install MySQL-python-1.2.3 but I get an error

Question

Here tis the error I get while trying to install MySQL-python-1.2.3. any idea's?

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\Desktop\MySQL-python-1.2.3\setup.py", line 15, in <module>
metadata, options = get_config()
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\Desktop\MySQL-python-1.2.3\setup_windows.py", line 7, in get_config
serverKey = _winreg.OpenKey(_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, options['registry_key'])
WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified

Trying to install this on Python 2.7 on a windows xp machine

Answer 1

There is a step by step on how to get around this problem here: http://www.fuyun.org/2009/12/install-mysql-for-python-on-windows/

Answer 2

Please take a look at this page: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ and search for "MySQL-python". You'll find some pre-compiled packages of MySQL-python for Windows. Maybe one of them will be ok for you.

Using one of them (for Windows 7) was the only way I found to make MySQL-python work on Windows.