ImportError: No module named MySQLdb (Python)
Trying to use MySQL with Python and getting an ImportError?
This is likely because you have not installed it to the system. You can do this on Ubuntu Linux by running the following code:
Also, remember that there is no MySQLdb for python3.x and above. There is however, a fork of it on GitHub at: https://github.com/PyMySQL/mysqlclient-python
For Mac users
If you want to install MySQL as well:
brew install mysql
Otherwise just install it through PIP:
pip install mysqlclient
For Linux users
pip install mysqlclient
If you need additional development headers, you can also execute:
Debian/Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install python3-dev default-libmysqlclient-dev build-essential
RedHat/CentOS
sudo yum install python3-devel mysql-devel
Have you tried PyMYSQL instead?
PyMySQL is great, you can give it a whirl by installing it with PIP:
pip install pymysql
Sometimes you have to first install Wheel
, which you can easily do by running:
pip install wheel