python - Django 1.10.3 connecting to MySQL 5.7.16

Question

Environment: Windows 8

I am trying to connect to MySQL using Django. I understand that this module is needed: 'MySQLdb'. To get this module I used pip install MYSQL-python and easy_install MySQL-Python. But I am getting the follwing error:

How can I install MySQL support for Python on Windows?

Answer 1

pip install often involves building libraries from scratch. When a library includes C code that sometimes means that you need to have header files available.

While it is possible to install Python libraries this way on Windows it can involve quite a bit of setup. The last time I worked with Python on Windows I ended up using precompiled libraries from Christoph Gohlke's website. I recommend starting there.

Christoph provides both mysql-python and mysqlclient (a fork of mysql-python that supports Python 3).