pip install mysql-python fails with EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found

Question

This is the error I get

(mysite)zjm1126@zjm1126-G41MT-S2:~/zjm_test/mysite$ pip install mysql-python
Downloading/unpacking mysql-python
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Answer 1

for mariadb install libmariadbclient-dev instead of libmysqlclient-dev

sudo apt-get install libmariadbclient-dev