ImportError: No module named _md5

**Robert Kern** · Jul 1 '08, 08:25 PM

Re: ImportError: No module named _md5

neridaj@gmail.c om wrote:

Hello,
>
Does anyone know how to fix this error when trying to build MySQL-
python-1.2.2:
>
python setup.py build
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 5, in <module>
import ez_setup; ez_setup.use_se tuptools()
File "/Users/jasonnerida/Downloads/MySQL-python-1.2.2/ez_setup.py",
line 83, in use_setuptools
egg = download_setupt ools(version, download_base, to_dir,
download_delay)
File "/Users/jasonnerida/Downloads/MySQL-python-1.2.2/ez_setup.py",
line 111, in download_setupt ools
import urllib2, shutil
File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framewor k/Versions/2.5/
lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 91, in <module>
import hashlib
File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framewor k/Versions/2.5/
lib/python2.5/hashlib.py", line 133, in <module>
md5 = __get_builtin_c onstructor('md5 ')
File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framewor k/Versions/2.5/
lib/python2.5/hashlib.py", line 60, in __get_builtin_c onstructor
import _md5
ImportError: No module named _md5
>
I then tried installing py25-hashlib via macports, which never
completes:
>
sudo port install py25-hashlib
Password:
Waiting for lock on /opt/local/var/macports/build/
_opt_local_var_ macports_source s_rsync.macport s.org_release_p orts_python_py2 5-
hashlib/work/.macports.py25-hashlib.state
>
Do I need to completely reinstall python? I'm using 2.5.2 which
shipped with Leopard.

Delete the directory

/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_ macports_source s_rsync.macport s.org_release_p orts_python_py2 5-hashlib/

and try building py25-hashlib again.

--
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco

ImportError: No module named _md5

ImportError: No module named _md5

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