[Fixed]-Django mysqlclient install

You don’t download the whl file yourself. You use pip to install it directly:

pip install mysqlclient.

Note that you don’t need this to try Django; nor do you need Apache. Python and Django is already an “integrated development environment” since Python includes sqlite3, and Django includes a development server.

Here is my solution. Make sure your virtualenv is activated, then type the following:

apt-get install default-libmysqlclient-dev
pip install mysqlclient

You don’t have to download any whl file

pip install mysqlclient

will work just fine .
In case you get any Microsoft Visual C++ error try

 pip install --only-binary :all: mysqlclient

hope it helps .

brew install mysql-connector-c
brew install mysql
brew unlink mysql-connector-c
sudo pip install pymysql
sudo pip install mysqlclient

Try running these commands on the terminal to install mysqlclient

easy to miss the 64-bit

You might got the wrong bit version of Python. Check that your bit version of python is correct. I by misstake downloaded the 32-bit version of Python and I got the same issue as you. I could do pip install mysqlclient with the 64-bit version without any issues.

(note that the windowsx86 on the image is 32-bit)

I solved through these steps:

pip install –upgrade pip

pip install –upgrade setuptools

pip install mysqlclient==1.4.6

if mysqlclient==1.4.6 will not work then try some other versions

pip install mysqlclient==x.x.x