I just upgraded my Ubuntu install to 16.04 and this seems to have broken my mysql dependencies in the MySQL-python package.
Here is my error message:
I ended up finding the solution to my problems with pip install --no-binary MySQL-python MySQL-python as stated in this thread : Python's MySQLdb can’t find libmysqlclient.dylib with Homebrewed MySQL
pip install --no-binary MySQL-python MySQL-python