Deprecated module sets with python 2.6

[Marco Rodrigues]

Binary package hint: python-mysqldb

When used "import MySQLdb" in a python script.

/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/MySQLdb/__init__.py:34: DeprecationWarning: the sets module is deprecated
  from sets import ImmutableSet

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Should be reported upstream.

[Walter Huf (hufman)]

The duplicate of this bug, #338387, says that version 1.2.3 of the python-mysqldb package will be out in March. It's now June, 3 months later, and I still have 1.2.2-7ubuntu1 installed. When will I get the updated, fixed version of this package?

[mristroph (mristroph)]

At the time of this writing, the Ubuntu package is still out of date, so it's still broken. To work around this, install MySQLdb using easy_install.

Here is what I did:

apt-get remove python-mysqldb # Remove outdated version
apt-get install python-setuptools # This package has easy_install, the tool you'll use to reinstall MySQLdb
### This might fail if you don't have some essentials. See below.
easy_install MySQL-python

### If you got an error about missing mysql_config, you'll need to install that. It's in libmysqlclient-dev
sudo aptitude search libmysqlclient # See what version of you are using. Assuming its 15, then do...
apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev # Building MySQLdb will require mysql_config, in this package.
apt-get install python-dev # It'll also need Python.h and some other stuff in here
### If you have a really fresh system, you'll need all the regular build tools. Just for kicks, load up on these:
apt-get install binutils-doc gcc-multilib make manpages-dev autoconf automake1.9 libtool
# Now, this BETTER work
easy_install MySQL-python

[Walter Huf (hufman)]

Hello July! Still waiting on the new version of python-mysqldb, which would prevent my server from emailing me every day...

[Walter (wdoekes)]

Walter Huf, in the mean time, you can add this to /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/MySQLdb/__init__.py (put it somewhere at the top):

import warnings
warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", message="the sets module is deprecated")

Or you could add it to the project that's mailing you every day.

[Walter Huf (hufman)]

I hacked the sets module itself to not throw the exception at all.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package python-mysqldb - 1.2.2-7ubuntu2

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python-mysqldb (1.2.2-7ubuntu2) karmic; urgency=low

  * Add 07_python_2.6.dpatch to fix python 2.6 related warnings. (LP: #341943)

 -- Mario Limonciello <email address hidden> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:45:36 -0500

[dino99 (9d9)]

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