sudo yum install MySQL-python

>>> import MySQLdb
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "MySQLdb/__init__.py", line 22, in ?
    raise ImportError("this is MySQLdb version %s, but _mysql is version %r" %
ImportError: this is MySQLdb version (1, 2, 3, 'final', 0), but _mysql is version (1, 2, 1, 'final', 1)

                  rm -rf MySQL-python-1.2.3/

>>> import MySQLdb