ImportError: MySQLdb-1.2.1p2 or newer is required; you have 1.2.2

[pat.j.anderson@…]

I'm using Fedora 7 with python2.5 and I track django-trunk regularly. I think this is a bug.

Below is my traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "manage.py", line 11, in <module>

execute_manager(settings)

File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/core/management.py", line 1775, in execute_manager

execute_from_command_line(action_mapping, argv)

File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/core/management.py", line 1662, in execute_from_command_line

action_mapping[action]()

File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/core/management.py", line 1220, in validate

num_errors = get_validation_errors(outfile)

File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/core/management.py", line 1014, in get_validation_errors

from django.db import models, connection

File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/db/init.py", line 11, in <module>

backend = import('django.db.backends.%s.base' % settings.DATABASE_ENGINE, {}, {}, [])

File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py", line 20, in <module>

raise ImportError, "MySQLdb-1.2.1p2 or newer is required; you have %s" % Database.version

ImportError: MySQLdb-1.2.1p2 or newer is required; you have 1.2.2

[Simon G. <dev@…>]

Not a bug - unfortunately there are some fairly problematic bugs in MySQLdb less than 1.2.2p2 and Django needs the ..p2 version. You need to upgrade MySQLdb or change your database setting to mysql_old. There's ​more info here

[nick.lane.au@…]

See: #4743

[Brian Rosner <brosner@…>]

Wait, is it just me or is 1.2.2 a newer version than 1.2.1p2? The documentation says 1.2.1p2 or newer. It appears the submitter has 1.2.2. Just a quick thing I noticed.

[Simon G. <dev@…>]

Oh... oops. My bad! I misread that as 1.2.2p2 instead of 1.2.1p2

[Brian Rosner <brosner@…>]

While my observation may be correct, I should have looked at #4743. Marked as duplicate since submitter mentioned Fedora.