Python3.4 can't install mysql-python

Question

# pip3.4 install mysql-python
  Downloading/unpacking mysql-python
  Downloading MySQL-python-1.2.5.zip (108kB): 108kB downloaded
  Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip_build_root/mysql-python/setup.py) egg_info for package mysql-python
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 17, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip_build_root/mysql-python/setup.py", line 13, in <module>
        from setup_posix import get_config
      File "/tmp/pip_build_root/mysql-python/setup_posix.py", line 2, in <module>
        from ConfigParser import SafeConfigParser
    ImportError: No module named 'ConfigParser'
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<string>", line 17, in <module>

  File "/tmp/pip_build_root/mysql-python/setup.py", line 13, in <module>

    from setup_posix import get_config

  File "/tmp/pip_build_root/mysql-python/setup_posix.py", line 2, in <module>

    from ConfigParser import SafeConfigParser

ImportError: No module named 'ConfigParser'

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Cleaning up...
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip_build_root/mysql-python
Storing debug log for failure in /root/.pip/pip.log

Solution 1

Resolved:

 pip3.4 install --allow-external mysql-connector-python 

Edit settings.py

'ENGINE': 'mysql.connector.django',

Solution 2

MySQL-python 1.2.5 does not support Python 3. The Django 1.7 docs recommend the fork mysqlclient.

Comments

[Alasdair]

I've seen questions from users struggling to get MySQL connector to work. The Django docs recommend mysqlclient.

[nicks]

where you able to install mysql-python after that?

[Haifeng Zhang]

this answer doesnt help me. the answer posted by Alasdair below helped.

[Himanshu Bansal]

DEPRECATION: --allow-external has been deprecated and will be removed in the future. Due to changes in the repository pr otocol, it no longer has any effect.