mysqlclient

This is a fork of MySQLdb1.

This project adds Python 3 support and bug fixes. I hope this fork is merged back to MySQLdb1 like distribute was merged back to setuptools.

Support

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When your question looks relating to Python rather than MySQL:

• Python mailing list python-list
• Slack pythondev.slack.com

Or when you have question about MySQL:

• MySQL Community on Slack

Install

Windows

Building mysqlclient on Windows is very hard. But there are some binary wheels you can install easily.

macOS (Homebrew)

Install MySQL and mysqlclient:

# Assume you are activating Python 3 venv
$ brew install mysql
$ pip install mysqlclient

If you don't want to install MySQL server, you can use mysql-client instead:

# Assume you are activating Python 3 venv
$ brew install mysql-client
$ echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/mysql-client/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
$ export PATH="/usr/local/opt/mysql-client/bin:$PATH"
$ pip install mysqlclient

Linux

You may need to install the Python 3 and MySQL development headers and libraries like so:

• $ sudo apt-get install python3-dev default-libmysqlclient-dev # Debian / Ubuntu
• % sudo yum install python3-devel mysql-devel # Red Hat / CentOS

Then you can install mysqlclient via pip now:

$ pip install mysqlclient

Documentation

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