Error installing mysqlclient for python on Ubuntu 18.04

Question

I installed Python 2.7.15rci and Python 3.6.7 on Ubuntu. When i did \'pip list\' on virtualenv it returns me:

Django (2.1.5)
pip (9.0.1)
pkg-resources (0.0.0         


        

Answer 1

This issue was persistent in Ubuntu and python 3+. In my case, I was using Ubuntu 18.04 and found this solution to be useful for python version 3.7.5

Step 1. Install libpython3.7-dev via sudo apt

> sudo apt-get install libpython3.7-dev

Step 2: Install mysqlclient

> python3 -m pip install mysqlclient==1.4.6