Python 3 ImportError: No module named 'ConfigParser'

Question

I am trying to pip install the MySQL-python package, but I get an ImportError.

Jans-MacBook-Pro:~ jan$ /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/bin/pip-3.3 install MySQL-python Downloading/unpacking MySQL-python   Running setup.py egg_info for package MySQL-python     Traceback (most recent call last):       File "<string>", line 16, in <module>       File "/var/folders/lf/myf7bjr57_jg7_5c4014bh640000gn/T/pip-build/MySQL-python/setup.py", line 14, in <module>         from setup_posix import get_config       File "./setup_posix.py", line 2, in <module>         from ConfigParser import SafeConfigParser     ImportError: No module named 'ConfigParser'     Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:     Traceback (most recent call last):    File "<string>", line 16, in <module>    File "/var/folders/lf/myf7bjr57_jg7_5c4014bh640000gn/T/pip-build/MySQL-python/setup.py", line 14, in <module>      from setup_posix import get_config    File "./setup_posix.py", line 2, in <module>      from ConfigParser import SafeConfigParser  ImportError: No module named 'ConfigParser'  ---------------------------------------- Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /var/folders/lf/myf7bjr57_jg7_5c4014bh640000gn/T/pip-build/MySQL-python Storing complete log in /Users/jan/.pip/pip.log Jans-MacBook-Pro:~ jan$  

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You can instead use the mysqlclient package as a drop-in replacement for MySQL-python. It is a fork of MySQL-python with added support for Python 3.

I had luck with simply

pip install mysqlclient 

in my python3.4 virtualenv after

sudo apt-get install python3-dev libmysqlclient-dev 

which is obviously specific to ubuntu/debian, but I just wanted to share my success :)