Django and mysql problems on Mavericks

Question

I\'m running Mac OSX 10.9 Mavericks. I\'m trying to run django under python 3. Because I\'m running Python 3 I have to get the official connector from the mysql devs here ga

Answer 1

For python 2.7, 3.3+ there is a driver called mysqlclient that works with django 1.8

pip install mysqlclient

And in your settings

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'NAME': '',
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
        'USER': '',
        'PASSWORD': '',      
    }
}

Here's the official django documentation about the mysql drivers:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/databases/#mysql-db-api-drivers