pip3 install mysql-python failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-4nev4id4/mysql-python/

Question

I am new in python on flask, when i try to install mysql-python by entering the
following command in terminal

pip3 install mysql-python

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Answer 1

mysql-python only supports Python 2.x, while you seem to be using Python 3. From the linked PyPI page:

MySQL-3.23 through 5.5 and Python-2.4 through 2.7 are currently supported. Python-3.0 will be supported in a future release.

To connect to MySQL from Python 3 you can use other alternatives:

• mysqlclient
• mysql-connector-python
• pymysql
• cymysql

Answer 2

MySQL-python does not support python3. That is why you get this particular error

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ConfigParser'

In python3 ConfigParser is renamed configparser

One option to connect to MySQL DB is official python connector

Another option is pyodbc

Other options are provided in other answers