pip install mysqlclient error

Question

i'm tryng to import mysqlclient library for python with pip, when i use the command
pip install mysqlclient it return an error:

Collecting mysqlclient
Using cached     https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ec/fd/83329b9d3e14f7344d1cb31f128e6dbba70c5975c9e57896815dbb1988ad/mysqlclient-1.3.13.tar.gz
Installing collected packages: mysqlclient
Running setup.py install for mysqlclient ... error
Complete output from command c:\users\astrina\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\astrina\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-40l_x_f4\\mysqlclient\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\astrina\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-va173t5v\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
c:\users\astrina\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\distutils\dist.py:261: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'long_description_content_type'
  warnings.warn(msg)
running install
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.6
copying _mysql_exceptions.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6
creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb\__init__.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb\compat.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb\connections.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb\converters.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb\cursors.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb\release.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb\times.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\MySQLdb
creating build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\MySQLdb\constants
copying MySQLdb\constants\__init__.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\MySQLdb\constants
copying MySQLdb\constants\CLIENT.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\MySQLdb\constants
copying MySQLdb\constants\CR.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\MySQLdb\constants
copying MySQLdb\constants\ER.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\MySQLdb\constants
copying MySQLdb\constants\FIELD_TYPE.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\MySQLdb\constants
copying MySQLdb\constants\FLAG.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\MySQLdb\constants
copying MySQLdb\constants\REFRESH.py -> build\lib.win-amd64-3.6\MySQLdb\constants
running build_ext
building '_mysql' extension
error: Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required. Get it with "Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools": http://landinghub.visualstudio.com/visual-cpp-build-tools

----------------------------------------
Command "c:\users\astrina\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, 
tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\astrina\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install- 
40l_x_f4\\mysqlclient\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open) 
(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, 
__file__, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\astrina\AppData\Local\Temp\pip- 
record-va173t5v\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed -- 
compile" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\astrina\AppData\Local\Temp\pip- 
install-40l_x_f4\mysqlclient\

I've already installed Microsoft Build Tools 2015 but the problem persist

Answer 1

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

sudo apt-get install python3-dev default-libmysqlclient-dev build-essential

Red Hat / CentOS

sudo yum install python3-devel mysql-devel

Then try

pip install mysqlclient