I'm trying to get a django site deployed from a repository. I was almost there, and then changed something (I'm not sure what!!) and was back to square one.

Now I'm trying to run ./manage.py syncdb and get the following error:

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> django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb module: this is MySQLdb version (1, 2, 3, 'final', 0), but \_mysql is version (1, 2, 2, 'final', 0)
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I've searched forums for hours and none of the solutions presented helped. I tried uninstalling and re-installing MySQL-python and upgrading it. I get the same error when trying to import it from the python command line interpreter.

Does anyone have any suggestions?