Upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 now MySQL-python dependencies are broken

Question

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:

Answer 1

I solved this on my virtual environment using django 2.2.7 and Ubuntu 19.10 by doing:

pip3 uninstall mysqlclient

pip3 install mysqlclient