GAE Python - libs on my requirements.txt are not installed

Question

I'm using flexible environments and I'd like to know what am I doing wrong when deploying it.

This is my requirements.txt

MySQL-python==1.2.5

If I uninstall this lib on my local computer this error will be thrown:

No module named MySQLdb

When I run "pip install -r requirements.txt" the lib will be installed and I'll able to use MySQLdb with no problems.

The problem is, when I upload this to server it does not install and the error "No module named MySQLdb" is thrown on production...

From what I understood reading some docs, is that I'd only need to specify which libs I want to use and google would do the installing on production.

Am I wrong?

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

MySql-python doesn't install properly using PyPi/pip. At the time of this question, it required the user to install some other C library, so that's probably why GAE can't install it. However, there are other replacement packages that should provide the exact same functions/API and install using pip.

Another alternative is to install the package directly into your app in a /lib folder and make sure that the app can install MySql-python correctly, and avoid the requirements.txt installer completely.