Installing MySQL Python on Mac OS X

Question

Long story short, when I write the following:

sudo easy_install MySQL-python

I get the error

EnvironmentError: mysql

Answer 1

For Python 3+ the mysql-python library is broken. Instead, use the mysqlclient library. Install with: pip install mysqlclient

It is a fork of mysql-python (also known as MySQLdb) that supports Python 3+

This library talks to the MySQL client's C-interface, and is faster than the pure-python pymysql libray.

Note: you will need the mysql-developer tools installed. An easy way to do this on a Mac is to run

brew install mysql-connector-c

to delegate this task to homebrew. If you are on linux, you can install these via the instructions at the mysqlclient github page.