'pip install MySQL-python' fails with 'IndexError'

Question

I\'m on OSX El Capitan, using Python 2.7 (Anaconda). Launching the command pip install MySQL-python yields:

Collecting MySQL-python
  Using cach         


        

Answer 1

I got the same error while installing pip install MySql-python.

Then, I had installed libmysqlclient-dev using the command:

sudo apt install libmysqlclient-dev

After installing it, I tried again and pip install MySql-python and it worked for me.