mysql-python: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist

I installed mysql using homebrew.

I'm now trying to install mysql-python and I keep getting the error below when I run mysql.

I'm new to programming and don't know enough to identify the problem.

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.

 TDNS-Mac-mini:~ TDNS$ easy_install mysql-python
     /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/easy_install:5: UserWarning: Module pkg_resources was already imported from /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.pyc, but /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/distribute-0.6.24-py2.7.egg is being added to sys.path
       from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
     /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/easy_install:5: UserWarning: Module site was already imported from /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site.pyc, but /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/distribute-0.6.24-py2.7.egg is being added to sys.path
       from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
     Searching for mysql-python
     Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/mysql-python/
     Reading http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/
     Reading http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python
     Best match: MySQL-python 1.2.3
     Downloading http://download.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mysql-python/MySQL-python-1.2.3.tar.gz
     Processing MySQL-python-1.2.3.tar.gz
     Running MySQL-python-1.2.3/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /var/folders/c9/xzv35t2n3ld9lgjrtl0vd0xr0000gn/T/easy_install-LsUpDW/MySQL-python-1.2.3/egg-dist-tmp-vzGMr9
     warning: no files found matching 'MANIFEST'
     warning: no files found matching 'ChangeLog'
     warning: no files found matching 'GPL'
     unable to execute gcc-4.2: No such file or directory
     error: Setup script exited with error: command 'gcc-4.2' failed with exit status 1
 
 TDNS-Mac-mini:~ TDNS$ mysqld
         120414 22:02:41 [Warning] Setting lower_case_table_names=2 because file system for /usr/local/var/mysql/ is case insensitive
         mysqld: Table 'mysql.plugin' doesn't exist
         120414 22:02:41 [ERROR] Can't open the mysql.plugin table. Please run mysql_upgrade to create it.
         120414 22:02:41 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
         120414 22:02:41 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins
         120414 22:02:41 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.5
         120414 22:02:41 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M
         120414 22:02:41 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
         120414 22:02:41 InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda.
         InnoDB: The log sequence number in ibdata files does not match
         InnoDB: the log sequence number in the ib_logfiles!
         120414 22:02:41  InnoDB: Database was not shut down normally!
         InnoDB: Starting crash recovery.
         InnoDB: Reading tablespace information from the .ibd files...
         InnoDB: Restoring possible half-written data pages from the doublewrite
         InnoDB: buffer...
         120414 22:02:41  InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start
         120414 22:02:42 InnoDB: 1.1.8 started; log sequence number 1595675
         120414 22:02:42 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist
 

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