django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb module: No module named MySQLdb

Question

The problem Im facing while trying to connect to database for mysql. I have also given the database settings that i have used.

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Answer 1

When I set up Django development environment for PyCharm in Mac OS X Mountain Lion with python, mysql, sequel pro application I got error same as owner of this thread. However, my answer for them who is running python-mysqldb under Mac OS Mountain Lion x86_x64 (MySql and Python also should be same architecture) and already tried everything like pip and etc. In order fix this problem do following steps:

1. Download MySql for Python from here
2. Untar downloaded file. In terminal window do following: tar xvfz downloade.tar.
3. cd /to untared directory
4. Run sudo python setup.py install

5. If you get error something like this: "Environment Error: /usr/local/bin/mysql_config not found" then try to add path ass follows: "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin". But id did not helped to me and I found another solution. In the end of command execution error output which looks like this:

   File "/path_to_file/MySQL-python-1.2.4b4/setup_posix.py", line 25, in mysql_config raise EnvironmentError("%s not found" % (mysql_config.path,))

6. Open setup_posix.py with vim and go to line 25 (In your case it can be different unless if it is same version).

7. Line 25 should look like this after your editing unless your mysql have symbolic link like follows '/usr/local/mysql/bin/':

   f = popen("%s --%s" % ('/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config', what))

8. After this I got another error as following:

   django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb module: dlopen(/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/MySQL_python-1.2.4b4-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg/_mysql.so, 2): Library not loaded: libmysqlclient.18.dylib Referenced from: /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/MySQL_python-1.2.4b4-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg/_mysql.so Reason: image not found

9. Finally I did following in console:

   sudo ln -s /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib

Currently everything works fine. So I hope it will be helpful for somebody who uses Mac. :)