MySQLdb not running on Mac 10.7

I am trying to install MySQL-Python (MySQLdb) locally on my Mac and I am having trouble. I have been working on this for HOURS and I continue to get this error:

>>> import MySQLdb
 /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/MySQL_python-1.2.3-py2.7-macosx-10.7-intel.egg/_mysql.py:3: UserWarning: Module _mysql was already imported from /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/MySQL_python-1.2.3-py2.7-macosx-10.7-intel.egg/_mysql.pyc, but /Users/dp/Code/MySQL-python-1.2.3 is being added to sys.path
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
   File "MySQLdb/__init__.py", line 19, in <module>
     import _mysql
   File "build/bdist.macosx-10.7-intel/egg/_mysql.py", line 7, in <module>
   File "build/bdist.macosx-10.7-intel/egg/_mysql.py", line 6, in __bootstrap__
 ImportError: dlopen(/Users/dp/.python-eggs/MySQL_python-1.2.3-py2.7-macosx-10.7-intel.egg-tmp/_mysql.so, 2): Library not loaded: libmysqlclient.18.dylib
   Referenced from: /Users/dp/.python-eggs/MySQL_python-1.2.3-py2.7-macosx-10.7-intel.egg-tmp/_mysql.so
   Reason: image not found
 >>>
 

I am trying to set up a python 2.7/Django/MySQL development environment and keep running into this problem. I have a feeling this could a problem with my .bash_profiles PATH so I am also including that below:

export PATH="/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH"
 

Thank you!!!

dp

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