ImportError: No module named MySQLdb

Question

I am referring the following tutorial to make a login page for my web application. http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/intro-to-flask-signing-in-and-out--net-29982

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Answer 1

My issue is :

return __import__('MySQLdb')
ImportError: No module named MySQLdb

and my resolution :

pip install MySQL-python
yum install mysql-devel.x86_64

at the very beginning, i just installed MySQL-python, but the issue still existed. So i think if this issue happened, you should also take mysql-devel into consideration. Hope this helps.

Answer 2

In ubuntu 20 , you can try this :

sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev
sudo apt-get install gcc
pip install mysqlclient

Answer 3

Got so many errors related to permissions and what not. You may wanna try this :

xcode-select --install

Answer 4

may you try

pip install mysqlclient

Answer 5

If you're having issues compiling the binary extension, or on a platform where you cant, you can try using the pure python PyMySQL bindings.

Simply pip install pymysql and switch your SQLAlchemy URI to start like this:

SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = 'mysql+pymysql://.....'

There are some other drivers you could also try.