Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required (Unable to find vcvarsall.bat)

Question

I\'ve installed Python 3.5 and while running

pip install mysql-python

it gives me the following error

error: Microsoft Vi         


        

Answer 1

had a similar situation installing pymssql

pip was trying to build the package because there were no official wheels
for python 3.6 & windows.

solved it by downloading an unoffical wheel from here:
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/

specifically for your case -> http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#mysql-python