Connecting to MySQL db via python [duplicate]

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I am trying to connect to a mysql db. I have installed the mysqldb package but it still says 'ImportError: No module named 'MySQLdb' when I import.

Why?

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:49:42Z

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Difficult to say without more detail! Have a look at these:

There's a pretty comprehensive guide for the installation (on Python 3) of the mysql connector here:

Perhaps thats worth another try. Alternatively I have happily used the mysql.connector which I got from here:

Its written in python so may be slower than the first option, which you may or may not care about.

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answered Nov 24, 2013 at 23:30

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