diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/tests/test_storedb.py b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/tests/test_storedb.py
index 3e826ec3c..87da6acbb 100644
--- a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/tests/test_storedb.py
+++ b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/tests/test_storedb.py
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
-import MySQLdb
+try:
+    import MySQLdb
+except ImportError:
+    pass
+
 from twisted.trial import unittest
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 from time import sleep