Fresh python 3.7 / django 2.2.1 installation not recognising that mysqlclient is installed

Question

I have a brand new django 2.2.1 project I have just installed into a python 3.7 virtualenv on OS X (10.14.4). After some frustrations I got mysqlclient to install but when I

Answer 1

If you're on macos do this

$ brew uninstall mysql
$ brew install mysql-connector-c
$ brew unlink mysql-connector-c
$ brew install mysql
$ pip install mysql-python

and follow the instructions here: https://pypi.org/project/mysqlclient/