Python 3 ImportError: No module named 'ConfigParser'

Question

I am trying to pip install the MySQL-python package, but I get an ImportError.

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Answer 1

I was having the same problem. Turns out, I needed to install python3 devel on my centos. First, you need to search for the package that is compatible with your system.

yum search python3 | grep devel

Then, install the package as:

yum install -y python3-devel.x86_64

Then, install mysqlclient from pip

pip install mysqlclient

Answer 2

Kindly to see what is /usr/bin/python pointing to

if it is pointing to python3 or higher change to python2.7

This should solve the issue.

I was getting install error for all the python packages. Abe Karplus's solution & discussion gave me the hint as to what could be the problem. Then I recalled that I had manually changed the /usr/bin/python from python2.7 to /usr/bin/python3.5, which actually was causing the issue. Once I reverted the same. It got solved.

Answer 3

MySQL-python is not supported on python3 instead of this you can use mysqlclient

If you are on fedora/centos/Red Hat install following package

1. yum install python3-devel
2. pip install mysqlclient

Answer 4

Compatibility of Python 2/3 for configparser can be solved simply by six library

from six.moves import configparser

Answer 5

Try this solution which worked fine for me.

Basically it's to reinstall/upgrade to latest version of mysql from brew, and then installing mysqlclient or MySQL-Python from global pip3 instead of virtualenv pip3.

Then accessing the virtualenv and successfully install mysqlclient or MySQL-Python.

Answer 6

I was getting the same error on Mac OS 10, Python 3.7.6 & Django 2.2.7. I want to use this opportunity to share what worked for me after trying out numerous solutions.

Steps

1. Installed Connector/Python 8.0.20 for Mac OS from link

2. Copy current dependencies into requirements.txt file, deactivated the current virtual env, and deleted it using;

   create the file if not already created with; touch requirements.txt

   copy dependency to file; python -m pip3 freeze > requirements.txt

   deactivate and delete current virtual env; deactivate && rm -rf <virtual-env-name>

3. Created another virtual env and activated it using; python -m venv <virtual-env-name> && source <virtual-env-name>/bin/activate

4. Install previous dependencies using; python -m pip3 install -r requirements.txt