python - No module named _mysql - Google App Engine & Django

Question

First of all I'm working on Mac (Yosemite).

I've created a simple Django project with Google App Engine. I'm using Cloud SQL in production and MySQL in development environment as recommended in the docs. The project uses virtualenv on my dev machine of course.

I can run the project with Django's built in runserver command without a problem and even if I deploy it to GAE everything is fine.

However if I run the development server with GAE launcher it raises an error whenever I try to load a page:

ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb module: No module named _mysql

I installed the same version of MySQLdb that GAE has. Currently its 1.2.4. MySQLdb is available for GAE SDK so I have no idea why it cannot import _mysql.

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