A quick and easy way for Mac OS X 10.8 and 10.9: python
I assume you have XCode, it's command line tool, Python and MySQL installed. mysql
Install PIP: sql
sudo easy_install pip
Edit ~/.profile: ui
nano ~/.profile
Copy and paste the following two line code
export PATH=/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/mysql/lib/
Save and exit. Afterwords execute the following command ip
source ~/.profile
Install MySQLdb it
sudo pip install MySQL-python
To test if everything works fine just try pip
python -c "import MySQLdb