Django MySQLdb version doesn't match _mysql version Ubuntu
For those who come upon this question: 
It turns out that ubuntu _mysql version was different from the one in my venv. Uninstalling that and re-installing in my venv did the trick.
I'm trying to get a django site deployed from a repository. I was almost there, and then changed something (I'm not sure what!!) and was back to square one.
Now I'm trying to run ./manage.py syncdb and get the following error:

django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb module: this is MySQLdb version (1, 2, 3, 'final', 0), but _mysql is version (1, 2, 2, 'final', 0)

I've searched forums for hours and none of the solutions presented helped. I tried uninstalling and re-installing MySQL-python and upgrading it. I get the same error when trying to import it from the python command line interpreter.
Does anyone have any suggestions?