MySQL restart on Mac OS X

This is the simplest way to restart the server on Mac OSX that I found

my-computer:~ me$ mysqladmin -uroot -p shutdown
Enter password:
my-computer:~ me$ sudo mysqld_safe
Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /sw/var/mysql

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MySQL Python API

If you try to install the python API for MySQL on Leopard, and receive the following message:

lipo: can't open input file: /var/tmp//ccDsRjet.out (No such file or directory)

make sure you check out this.