django+mysql='DatabaseWrapper' object has no attribute 'Database' error

Question

I\'ve just installed Python 3.3.0, mysql-connector and Django. Then I created my first application called mysite. In settings.py

Answer 1

I had same error for Django 1.8.9, Python 3.6.12. And I was using django-transaction-hooks==0.2. And my DATABASES settings were

DATABASES = {
'default': {
    'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
    .
    .

I fixed the issue by using DATABASES settings as follows

DATABASES = {
'default': {
    'ENGINE': 'transaction_hooks.backends.mysql',
    .
    .

Answer 2

Ok, so I was experiencing exactly the same problem. There are lots of suggestions on how you can modify part of existing libraries to make Python3 work with MySQL, but I didn't find any of them to work 100%. I wasn't able to make official MySQL Python connector to work with Django and Python 3.3.

What did work was switching to PyMySQL library instead. Few months back I already tried it but it didn't work for me back then. Now, there is a new version, 0.6.1 which worked out of the box. So, few more details:

My environment: OSX 10.9 , Python 3.3.3, Django 1.6.1, MyPySQL 0.6.1, MySQL Server 5.5 on Windows

How to make it work:

1. Install PyMySQL version 0.6.1 (https://github.com/PyMySQL/PyMySQL/): you can install it either by using pip, i.e. : pip install PyMySQL or by manually downloading the package; there is a good documentation on their website on how to do that.

2. Open your Django App __init__.py and paste the following lines:

   import pymysql
   pymysql.install_as_MySQLdb() 
   

3. Now, open settings.py and make sure your DATABASE property looks like this:

   DATABASES = {
      'default': {
          'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
          'NAME': 'mydb',
          'USER': 'dbuser',
          'PASSWORD': 'dbpassword',
          'HOST': 'dbhost',
          'PORT': '3306'
       }
   }
   

4. That's it, you should be able to execute python manage.py syncdb so init your MySQL DB; see the sample output below:

   Creating tables ...
   Creating table django_admin_log
   Creating table auth_permission
   Creating table auth_group_permissions
   ...
   ...
   Creating table socialaccount_socialtoken
   
   You just installed Django's auth system, which means you don't have any superusers defined.
   ...