How to install Python MySQLdb module using pip?

Question

How can I install the MySQLdb module for Python using pip?

Answer 1

If you have Windows installed on your system then type the following command on cmd :

pip install mysql-connector

if the above command does not work try using:

pip install mysql-connector-python

Now,if the above commands do not get the work done, try using:

pip install mysql-connector-python-rf

That's it you are good to go now.

Answer 2

I had the same problem too.Follow these steps if you are on Windows. Go to: 1.My Computer 2.System Properties 3.Advance System Settings 4. Under the "Advanced" tab click the button that says "Environment Variables" 5. Then under System Variables you have to add / change the following variables: PYTHONPATH and Path. Here is a paste of what my variables look like: python path:

C:\Python27;C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages;C:\Python27\Lib;C:\Python27\DLLs;C:\Python27\Lib\lib-tk;C:\Python27\Scripts

path:

C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Utilities 1.3.5\;C:\Python27;C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages;C:\Python27\Lib;C:\Python27\DLLs;C:\Python27\Lib\lib-tk;C:\Python27\Scripts

See this link for reference

Answer 3

It's easy to do, but hard to remember the correct spelling:

pip install mysqlclient

If you need 1.2.x versions (legacy Python only), use pip install MySQL-python

Note: Some dependencies might have to be in place when running the above command. Some hints on how to install these on various platforms:

Ubuntu 14, Ubuntu 16, Debian 8.6 (jessie)

sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev libmysqlclient-dev

Fedora 24:

sudo dnf install python python-devel mysql-devel redhat-rpm-config gcc

Mac OS

brew install mysql-connector-c

if that fails, try

brew install mysql

Answer 4

For Python3 I needed to do this:

python3 -m pip install MySQL

Answer 5

You can go to this website to download the package.

Answer 6

I had problems installing the 64-bit version of MySQLdb on Windows via Pip (problem compiling sources) [32bit version installed ok]. Managed to install the compiled MySQLdb from the .whl file available from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/

The .whl file can then be installed via pip as document in https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/user_guide/#installing-from-wheels

For example if you save in C:/ the you can install via

pip install c:/MySQL_python-1.2.5-cp27-none-win_amd64.whl

Follow-up: if you have a 64bit version of Python installed, then you want to install the 64-bit AMD version of MySQLdb from the link above [i.e. even if you have a Intel processor]. If you instead try and install the 32-bit version, I think you get the unsupported wheel error in comments below.