pip3 install mysql-python is failing on Mac

Question

There are a lot of similar question but all of them has different solution. And none of them work for me.

I'm trying to install Mysql connector for Django project but it gives below error.

First I have installed latest version of Django. Then install mysql with below code

brew install mysql - Worked fine.

Then this is the code which I'm trying install connector.

pip3 mysql-python . Was using easy_install mysql-python before but both of them are not working.

Python Version: 3.8.0

Django Version: 2.2.7

MySql Version: 8.0.18

pip3 mysql-python gives this error:

Collecting mysql-python Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/a5/e9/51b544da85a36a68debe7a7091f068d802fc515a3a202652828c73453cad/MySQL-python-1.2.5.zip ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: command: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/bin/python3.8 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/private/var/folders/6n/d2t3k0sd4l1d78bgk_ll5psm0000gn/T/pip-install-4nmg9waj/mysql-python/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/private/var/folders/6n/d2t3k0sd4l1d78bgk_ll5psm0000gn/T/pip-install-4nmg9waj/mysql-python/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /private/var/folders/6n/d2t3k0sd4l1d78bgk_ll5psm0000gn/T/pip-install-4nmg9waj/mysql-python/pip-egg-info cwd: /private/var/folders/6n/d2t3k0sd4l1d78bgk_ll5psm0000gn/T/pip-install-4nmg9waj/mysql-python/ Complete output (7 lines): Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/private/var/folders/6n/d2t3k0sd4l1d78bgk_ll5psm0000gn/T/pip-install-4nmg9waj/mysql-python/setup.py", line 13, in <module> from setup_posix import get_config File "/private/var/folders/6n/d2t3k0sd4l1d78bgk_ll5psm0000gn/T/pip-install-4nmg9waj/mysql-python/setup_posix.py", line 2, in <module> from ConfigParser import SafeConfigParser ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ConfigParser' ---------------------------------------- ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

Answer 1

You're installing the wrong lib, you should be using mysqlclient .

pip install mysqlclient

I have a django project on my Mac using it.

Edit

You should be using virtualenv when installing pip packages.

Answer 2

This command worked for me

pip3 install mysqlclient==1.4.2.post1