pip3 install mysql-python failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-4nev4id4/mysql-python/

Question

I am new in python on flask, when i try to install mysql-python by entering the
following command in terminal

pip3 install mysql-python

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Answer 1

mysql-python only supports Python 2.x, while you seem to be using Python 3. From the linked PyPI page:

MySQL-3.23 through 5.5 and Python-2.4 through 2.7 are currently supported. Python-3.0 will be supported in a future release.

To connect to MySQL from Python 3 you can use other alternatives:

• mysqlclient
• mysql-connector-python
• pymysql
• cymysql