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I am working on a little hobby project which I want to publish under an open source license. I use the django framework 2.0 and I am now testing my application on the Apache web server. I use Anaconda3 to manage the virtual environment for the project. I already tested my application with SQLite as db backend, but if I use MySQL instead, the web server log says that mysqlclient can't import _mysql. I tried to run the dj development server on the python vm and it is working. Could you please help me?

David Rotert
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Rather than using mysqlclient, use pymysql. And in wsgi.py use this at top:

#wsgi.py
import os

...
import pymysql
pymysql.install_as_MySQLdb()

Reason for using pymysql is: What's the difference between MySQLdb, mysqlclient and MySQL connector/Python?

ruddra
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