cannot install MySQL-python on os x

Question

I'm trying to use MySQL database with Django on OS X 10.11.3 but when i try "pip install MySQL-python" it gives me this error:

Collecting MySQL-python   Using cached MySQL-python-1.2.5.zip
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/private/var/folders/0q/24f40xt52fg_xbjz5drz_m2r0000gn/T/pip-build-8ms1ni7b/MySQL-python/setup.py", line 13, in <module>
        from setup_posix import get_config
      File "/private/var/folders/0q/24f40xt52fg_xbjz5drz_m2r0000gn/T/pip-build-8ms1ni7b/MySQL-python/setup_posix.py", line 2, in <module>
        from ConfigParser import SafeConfigParser
    ImportError: No module named 'ConfigParser'

    ---------------------------------------- Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/0q/24f40xt52fg_xbjz5drz_m2r0000gn/T/pip-build-8ms1ni7b/MySQL-python

I tried installing ConfigParser and i have MySQL python connector installed on my system.

Here are my project details:

Django 1.9.2
Python 3.5
OS X 10.11.3
IDE PyCharm
Virtual Environment myvenv

I've searched internet and almost tried all methods to use MySQL with Django but i'm failing since hours. Please guide me with this

Answer 1

It looks like you're trying to install the Python 2.X only driver on Python 3. The documentation recommends using mysqlclient:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/ref/databases/#mysql-db-api-drivers

The mysqlclient GitHub page with install instructions, including pre-requisites you may need:

https://github.com/PyMySQL/mysqlclient-python

Good luck!