I am referring the following tutorial to make a login page for my web application. http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/intro-to-flask-signing-in-and-out--net-29982
I am having issue with the database. I am getting an
ImportError: No module named MySQLdb
when I execute
http://127.0.0.1:5000/testdb
I have tried all possible ways to install python mysql, the one mentioned in the tutorial, easy_install, sudo apt-get install.
I have installed mysql in my virtual env. My directory structure is just the same as whats explained in the tutorial. The module is sucessfully installed in my system and still I am getting this error.
Please help. What could be causing this.
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I got this issue when I was working on SQLAlchemy. The default dialect used by SQLAlchemy for MySQL is mysql+mysqldb
.
engine = create_engine('mysql+mysqldb://scott:tiger@localhost/foo')
I got the "No module named MySQLdb
" error when the above command was executed. To fix it I installed the mysql-python
module and the issue was fixed.
sudo pip install mysql-python
may you try
pip install mysqlclient
It depends on Python Version as well in my experience.
If you are using Python 3, @DazWorrall answer worked fine for me.
However, if you are using Python 2, you should
sudo pip install mysql-python
which would install 'MySQLdb' module without having to change the SQLAlchemy URI.
Or try this:
apt-get install python-mysqldb
yum install MySQL-python.x86_64
worked for me.
Got so many errors related to permissions and what not. You may wanna try this :
xcode-select --install
So I spent about 5 hours trying to figure out how to deal with this issue when trying to run
./manage.py makemigrations
With Ubuntu Server LTS 16.1, a full LAMP stack, Apache2 MySql 5.7 PHP 7 Python 3 and Django 1.10.2 I really struggled to find a good answer to this. In fact, I am still not satisfied, but the ONLY solution that worked for me is this...
sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3 libmysqlclient-dev
followed by (from inside the virtual environment)
pip install mysqlclient
I really dislike having to use dev installs when I am trying to set up a new web server, but unfortunately this configuration was the only mostly comfortable path I could take.
In ubuntu 20 , you can try this :
sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev
sudo apt-get install gcc
pip install mysqlclient
My issue is :
return __import__('MySQLdb')
ImportError: No module named MySQLdb
and my resolution :
pip install MySQL-python
yum install mysql-devel.x86_64
at the very beginning, i just installed MySQL-python, but the issue still existed. So i think if this issue happened, you should also take mysql-devel into consideration. Hope this helps.
While @Edward van Kuik's answer is correct, it doesn't take into account an issue with virtualenv v1.7 and above.
In particular installing python-mysqldb
via apt
on Ubuntu put it under /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/dist-packages
, but this path isn't included by default in the virtualenv's sys.path
.
So to resolve this, you should create your virtualenv with system packages by running something like:
virtualenv --system-site-packages .venv
Source: Stackoverflow.com