ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'MySQLdb' Amazon MySQL RDS SQLAlchemy

Question

I am having issues with connecting Amazon AWS MySQL with SQLAlchemy. According to the instruction, I have connected.

app.config[\'SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI\'] = \'         


        

Answer 1

If you use the PyMySQL client to connect to MySQL, your SQLAlchemy connection string needs to start with

 mysql+pymysql://

instead of mysql://.

If you connect with mysql:// then you will need to install the MySQLdb library as shown in the Traceback.