Unable to install a Library using PIP

Question

So I'm trying to follow a tutorial to connect to an SQL database, using Connector/Python.

I have to import it, obviously:

import mysql.connector

So I tried pip install mysql in the terminal.

This is what I got:

Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/g6/yrxcmygn3ls375rm9rh3p86r0000gn/T/pip-build-a0d0rzdl/MySQL-python/

What I've tried from looking up on Google:

pip install --upgrade setuptools

pip install ez_setup

pip install unroll

easy_install -U setuptools

Nothing worked

Thanks

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40512331/how-to-install-mysql-python-by-pip then maybe see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26560973/python3-mysql-error-loading-mysqldb-module-no-module-named-mysqldb/40557340#40557340 — Dan-Dev, May 20 '17 at 19:12

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 26 '17 at 18:39

MySQL-Python is not available for Python 3, you may consider using MySqlClient which is a fork of the MySQL-python interface for the MySQL database.

Before installing this connector, make sure MySQL (or MariaDB) is installed.

On Linux, you also need the "devel" packages. See: https://stackoverflow.com/a/7461662/1513933
On Windows, you may be interested in the unofficial Windows binaries.

To install, an application, the best practices is to use a virtualenv.

Unable to install a Library using PIP

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