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These are very exciting times to be in the software business, indeed.

If, for whatever reason, you are running MySQL from your LAMPP installation and try to use Python's MySQLdb API to connect to MySQL server you will get the following nasty error into your face:

ImportError: libmysqlclient_r.so.15: cannot open shared object file

The problem is that lampp, in its attemt to not disturb the rest of the OS space, does not expose some crucial shared libraries (like: mysql client, ssl etc.) to Linux at large and Python is unable to find them even though they are installed under LAMPP.

The solution is quite easy