How to install flask-mysql for python3?

Question

I tried to install flask-mysql from pip3 to python3, but it throws exception. Here is log.

Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip-build-j2hw4zsz/MySQL-python/setup.py) egg_info for package MySQL-python
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 17, in <module>
  File "/tmp/pip-build-j2hw4zsz/MySQL-python/setup.py", line 13, in <module>
    from setup_posix import get_config
  File "/tmp/pip-build-j2hw4zsz/MySQL-python/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 17, in <module>

File "/tmp/pip-build-j2hw4zsz/MySQL-python/setup.py", line 13, in <module>

from setup_posix import get_config

File "/tmp/pip-build-j2hw4zsz/MySQL-python/setup_posix.py", line 2, in <module>

from ConfigParser import SafeConfigParser

ImportError: No module named 'ConfigParser'

So, how to install flask-mysql to python3?

P.S. I tried to install both with "pip3 install flask-mysql" and "pip install Flask...whl".

There is currently pending issue on this sunject github.com/cyberdelia/flask-mysql/issues/8 . — pacholik
– pacholik, Commented Nov 11, 2015 at 15:18

davidism · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-11 15:49:37Z

6

Flask-MySQL uses MySQL-Python, which doesn't support Python 3, and there has been an open issue about it for over a year. Use Flask-MySQLdb instead, which uses MySQLclient.

pip install flask-mysqldb

Or use SQLAlchemy, a much more powerful interface for working with databases.

pip install flask-sqlalchemy mysqlclient

answered Nov 11, 2015 at 15:49

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