ImportError: No module named mysql.connector using Python3?

Question

trying to import python-mysql.connector on Python 3.2.3 and receiving an odd stack. I suspect bad configuration on my ubuntu 12.04 install.

    vfi@ubuntu:/usr/share/pyshared$ python3
    Python 3.2.3 (default, Sep 25 2013, 18:22:43) 
    [GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> import mysql.connector
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "", line 1, in 
    ImportError: No module named mysql.connector
    Error in sys.excepthook:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/share/pyshared/apport_python_hook.py", line 66, in apport_excepthook
        from apport.fileutils import likely_packaged, get_recent_crashes
      File "apport/__init__.py", line 1, in 
        from apport.report import Report
      File "apport/report.py", line 20, in 
        import apport.fileutils
      File "apport/fileutils.py", line 22, in 
        from apport.packaging_impl import impl as packaging
      File "apport/packaging_impl.py", line 20, in 
        import apt
      File "apt/__init__.py", line 24, in 
        from apt.package import Package
      File "apt/package.py", line 1051
        return file_list.read().decode("utf-8").split(u"\n")
                                                          ^
    SyntaxError: invalid syntax

    Original exception was:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "", line 1, in 
    ImportError: No module named mysql.connector

here is the related modules state on my pc:

vfi@ubuntu:/usr/share/pyshared$ sudo aptitude search python3-apt
i   python3-apt                                                                                    - Python 3 interface to libapt-pkg                                                                        
p   python3-apt:i386                                                                               - Python 3 interface to libapt-pkg                                                                        
p   python3-apt-dbg                                                                                - Python 3 interface to libapt-pkg (debug extension)                                                      
p   python3-apt-dbg:i386                                                                           - Python 3 interface to libapt-pkg (debug extension)                                                      
v   python3-apt-dbg:any                                                                            -                                                                                                         
v   python3-apt-dbg:any:i386                                                                       -                                                                                                         
v   python3-apt:any                                                                                -                                                                                                         
v   python3-apt:any:i386                                                                           -                                                                                                         
vfi@ubuntu:/usr/share/pyshared$ sudo aptitude search python-apt
i   python-apt                                                                                     - Python interface to libapt-pkg                                                                          
p   python-apt:i386                                                                                - Python interface to libapt-pkg                                                                          
i   python-apt-common                                                                              - Python interface to libapt-pkg (locales)                                                                
p   python-apt-dbg                                                                                 - Python interface to libapt-pkg (debug extension)                                                        
p   python-apt-dbg:i386                                                                            - Python interface to libapt-pkg (debug extension)                                                        
v   python-apt-dbg:any                                                                             -                                                                                                         
v   python-apt-dbg:any:i386                                                                        -                                                                                                         
p   python-apt-dev                                                                                 - Python interface to libapt-pkg (development files)                                                      
p   python-apt-doc                                                                                 - Python interface to libapt-pkg (API documentation)                                                      
v   python-apt-p2p                                                                                 -                                                                                                         
v   python-apt-p2p-khashmir                                                                        -                                                                                                         
v   python-apt:any                                                                                 -                                                                                                         
v   python-apt:any:i386                                                                            -                                                                                                         
i   python-aptdaemon                                                                               - Python module for the server and client of aptdaemon                                                    
p   python-aptdaemon-gtk                                                                           - Transitional dummy package                                                                              
i   python-aptdaemon.gtk3widgets                                                                   - Python GTK+ 3 widgets to run an aptdaemon client                                                        
p   python-aptdaemon.gtkwidgets                                                                    - Python GTK+ 2 widgets to run an aptdaemon client                                                        
i   python-aptdaemon.pkcompat                                                                      - PackageKit compatibilty for AptDaemon                                                                   
p   python-aptdaemon.test                                                                          - Test environment for aptdaemon clients                                                                  
vfi@ubuntu:/usr/share/pyshared$ sudo aptitude search python-mysql.connector
pi  python-mysql.connector                                                                         - pure Python implementation of MySQL Client/Server protocol     

Hope you can help!

Thanks

Answer 1

Finally figured out what was my problem.

python-mysql.connector was not a py3 package and apt-get nor aptitude was proposing such version.

I managed to install it with pip3 which was not so simple on ubuntu 12.04 because it's only bundled with ubuntu starting at 12.10 and the package does not have the same name under pip...

vfi@ubuntu:$sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools
vfi@ubuntu:$sudo easy_install3 pip

vfi@ubuntu:$ pip --version
pip 1.4.1 from /usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/pip-1.4.1-py3.2.egg (python 3.2)

vfi@ubuntu:$sudo pip install mysql-connector-python