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I'm using Django 1.8 with Python 3.4 in a virtualenv on Windows Vista, and I'm trying to connect a MySQL database to my project. However I realized that I need to have MySQL-python installed to do that.

So I tried to install MySQL-python from command prompt with this pip command:

pip install MySQL-python

And I got an error message saying:

error: Microsoft Visual C++ 10.0 is required (Unable to find vcvarsall.bat).

I went to download Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 but it said I had a more recent version installed already (I think I installed Visual 2013 some time ago).

I don't understand why it wouldn't work with a more recent version of Visual C++, and I can't find any answers anywhere.

If someone could help me resolve this issue that would be great.

Thanks.

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  • I think this can help you stackoverflow.com/a/12993845/3945375 Commented Jul 14, 2015 at 22:47
  • @Gocht this is for Linux :/ Commented Jul 14, 2015 at 22:49
  • I remember having this issue a lot on Windows. WinPython comes with many useful tools pre-installed, including SQL connectors. winpython.sourceforge.net Commented Jul 14, 2015 at 22:55
  • Or you can use wheel packages for windows from here lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#mysqlclient Commented Jul 14, 2015 at 23:03
  • @Dawid are the wheel packages better to use than the source code version? Commented Jul 16, 2015 at 22:09

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Your best bet is to look at the open issues on Github for this project. In particular take a look at issue 98:

mysqlclient is the de-facto successor of MySQL-python.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mysqlclient

It appears that mysql-python is no longer maintained and is a legacy version, as the Github project page states.

Good luck.

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thanks, I tried that but it still won't work. I'm not sure if I downloaded it properly. I downloaded the source code version (.tar) to my virtualenv, and unpacked it. Still get the same error.

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