we recommend using isolated python enviroment, using pythonbrew. you can find it here. through the following commands, you are good to go.

install pythonbrew.

$ curl -kL http://xrl.us/pythonbrewinstall | bash

add this to your ~/.bashrc.

[[ -s $HOME/.pythonbrew/etc/bashrc ]] && source $HOME/.pythonbrew/etc/bashrc

after that, reload your shell env and install the required python version.

$ source /etc/profile
$ pythonbrew install 2.7.3

make sure you have easy_install or pip installed. in the most case if you use pythonbrew, they're already installed. Or you can install by yourself.

$ apt-get install python-setuptools
$ apt-get install python-pip

run following command to install the project dependencies.

$ python setup.py install

or download flowing packages manually:

• memcache client: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-memcached/1.48
• flask : http://flask.pocoo.org/
• oursql: mysql client for python. In ubuntu, you can install use "sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev python-dev && sudo pip install oursql"
• SQLAlchemy: Database Abstract Layer. In ubuntu, you can install use "sudo pip install SQLAlchemy"

memcache-cloud using different config for different enviroment such as production and development. here is how it works

• a file named env.py with content like ENV="ProductionConfig" specified the enviroment.

• memcache-cloud judging from a config named 'ENV' to load the according config from a file named config.py in the root directory of the project.

  ENV="Development"
  
  class Config(object):
      HOST='0.0.0.0'
      PORT=8818
  
  class ProductionConfig(Config):
      DEBUG=False
  
  class DevelopmentConfig(Config):
      PORT=3000
      DEBUG=True
  

1. config database in env.py.

   class DevelopmentConfig(Config):
       PORT=3000
       DEBUG=True
       DB_URI="mysql+oursql://mc:mc@localhost/mc"
   

2.run the initdb.py

```
$ python initdb.py
```