Import error: No module named _mysql
<p>I am trying to import MySQLdb using python 2.7, while I am getting the below error. I am new on Ubuntu, so unable to figure out where things are going wrong.</p>

<p>error message :</p>

<pre><code>import MySQLdb
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "&lt;stdin&gt;", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MySQLdb/__init__.py", line 19, in &lt;module&gt;
ImportError: No module named _mysql
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<p>Could you please help me out ?</p>

<p>i have used below commands to install python mysqldb</p>

<pre><code>$ gunzip MySQL-python-1.2.4b4.tar.gz
$ tar -xvf MMySQL-python-1.2.4b4.tar
$ cd MySQL-python-1.2.4b4
$ python setup.py build
$ python setup.py install
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