Question

I am running Windows 10 and Python 3.6.3 . I am trying to install flask-mysqldb using

pip install flask-mysqldb.

It fails with the following:

Command "c:\\users...\\appdata\\local\\programs\\python\\python36-32\\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize; file ='C:\\Users\\..~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-5lp__7r6\\mysqlclient\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)( file );code=f.read().replace('\\r\\n', '\\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, file , 'exec'))" install --record C:\\Users...~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-record-zvpyshav\\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in C:\\Users...~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-5lp__7r6\\mysqlclient\\

I have tried to install the build tools for Visual Studio, but this doesn't seem to help.

Any help or direction would be appreciated.

Thank you.

Answer 1

On windows computers, mysql connector is a better alternative.

Install it using:

pip install mysql-connector

I hope that solves your problem.