Error loading MySQLdb module: No module named 'MySQLdb'
<p>I have tried a lot to solve this issue but I did not solve it. I have searched a lot on google and stackoverflow, no option is working for me. Please help me. Thanks in advance. I am using django 1.10, python 3.4.
I have tried :</p>

<ol>
<li>pip install mysqldb.</li>
<li>pip install mysql.</li>
<li>pip install mysql-python.</li>
<li>pip install MySQL-python.</li>
<li>easy_install mysql-python.</li>
<li>easy_install MySQL-python.</li>
</ol>

<p>Anything else left ?</p>

<pre><code>      C:\Users\benq\Desktop\dimo-develop\Project&gt;python manage.py runserver
Unhandled exception in thread started by &lt;function check_errors.&lt;locals&gt;.wrapper at 0x0332D348&gt;
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\db\backends\mysql\base.py", line 25, in &lt;module&gt;
    import MySQLdb as Database
ImportError: No module named 'MySQLdb'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\utils\autoreload.py", line 226, in wrapper
    fn(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\commands\runserver.py", line 109, in inner_run
    autoreload.raise_last_exception()
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\utils\autoreload.py", line 249, in raise_last_exception
    six.reraise(*_exception)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\utils\six.py", line 685, in reraise
    raise value.with_traceback(tb)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\utils\autoreload.py", line 226, in wrapper
    fn(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\__init__.py", line 18, in setup
    apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\apps\registry.py", line 108, in populate
    app_config.import_models(all_models)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\apps\config.py", line 202, in import_models
    self.models_module = import_module(models_module_name)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\importlib\__init__.py", line 109, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap&gt;", line 2254, in _gcd_import
  File "&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap&gt;", line 2237, in _find_and_load
  File "&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap&gt;", line 2226, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap&gt;", line 1200, in _load_unlocked
  File "&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap&gt;", line 1129, in _exec
  File "&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap&gt;", line 1471, in exec_module
  File "&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap&gt;", line 321, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\auth\models.py", line 4, in &lt;module&gt;
    from django.contrib.auth.base_user import AbstractBaseUser, BaseUserManager
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\auth\base_user.py", line 49, in &lt;module&gt;
    class AbstractBaseUser(models.Model):
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\base.py", line 108, in __new__
    new_class.add_to_class('_meta', Options(meta, app_label))
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\base.py", line 299, in add_to_class
    value.contribute_to_class(cls, name)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\options.py", line 263, in contribute_to_class
    self.db_table = truncate_name(self.db_table, connection.ops.max_name_length())
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\db\__init__.py", line 36, in __getattr__
    return getattr(connections[DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS], item)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\db\utils.py", line 212, in __getitem__
    backend = load_backend(db['ENGINE'])
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\db\utils.py", line 116, in load_backend
    return import_module('%s.base' % backend_name)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\importlib\__init__.py", line 109, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\db\backends\mysql\base.py", line 28, in &lt;module&gt;
    raise ImproperlyConfigured("Error loading MySQLdb module: %s" % e)
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb module: No module named 'MySQLdb'
</code></pre>

<p>MySQLdb is not compatible with Python 3. Use mysql-client or mysql-connect.</p>

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