[Derek Simkowiak]
-> [if you don't have a C compiler:]
This was my predicament. I haven't installed Cygwin on this laptop.
-> [5]. Try to install MySQL-python (filename "MySQL-python-0.9.1.win32-py2.1.exe") -> [6]. Copy the MySQL-python files from your Python 2.1.2 installation -> into your Zope installation's lib\python. -> [7]. Start Zope.
At this point you ought to be able to remove the extra Python installation from your computer, if you really don't want it. It seems to me that there should be one registry setting which you could change or add, that would let the MySQL-python installer know to use Python installation in Zope . I'll bet it's the key named HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\2.1\InstallPath If you create this key and give it the string value of the path to the directory your Zope python.exe is in, I bet everything will install fine. Then you wouldn't need to fuss around with an extra Python installation at all. Cheers, Tom P