ImproperlyConfigured: MySQL driver not installed!

Hey, guys. I’m trying to connect to my remote MySQL database using Peewee, but I am getting the following error (in a virtual environment):

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "peewee_test.py", line 2, in <module>
    from student import Student
  File "/Users/Matthew/Desktop/python-mvc/student.py", line 10, in <module>
    db.connect()
  File "/Users/Matthew/Desktop/python-mvc/lib/python3.6/site-packages/peewee.py", line 2467, in connect
    self._state.set_connection(self._connect())
  File "/Users/Matthew/Desktop/python-mvc/lib/python3.6/site-packages/peewee.py", line 3164, in _connect
    raise ImproperlyConfigured('MySQL driver not installed!')
peewee.ImproperlyConfigured: MySQL driver not installed!

student.py

from peewee import *

db = MySQLDatabase(
	host='host_here',
	user='mysql_username_here',
	password='mysql_password_here',
	database='mysql_db_here'
)

db.connect()

class Student(Model):
	firstName = CharField()
	lastName = CharField()

	class Meta:
		database = db

peewee_test.py

from peewee import *
from student import Student

john_doe = Student.create(
	firstName='John', 
	lastName='Doe',
	is_relative=False
)

I installed MySQL via Homebrew. This is the version I have:

mysql  Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.7.12, for osx10.10 (x86_64) using  EditLine wrapper

I also installed PyMySQL as others have suggested here. Others also suggested installing mysql-python, but I get an error when when attempting to install it:

Collecting mysql-python
  Using cached MySQL-python-1.2.5.zip
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/private/var/folders/m7/wyjxzv8s5sdbh2jr35tq55y00000gn/T/pip-build-xh7783h6/mysql-python/setup.py", line 13, in <module>
        from setup_posix import get_config
      File "/private/var/folders/m7/wyjxzv8s5sdbh2jr35tq55y00000gn/T/pip-build-xh7783h6/mysql-python/setup_posix.py", line 2, in <module>
        from ConfigParser import SafeConfigParser
    ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ConfigParser'
    
    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/m7/wyjxzv8s5sdbh2jr35tq55y00000gn/T/pip-build-xh7783h6/mysql-python/

I have two installations of Python on My Mac (running OSX 10.10): Python 2.7 and 3.6. I’m using pip3 to install the above packages.

Thank you for your time!

[coleifer]

Peewee will work with pymysql or mysql-python. It sounds like you have an issue with your module-import path. This is not an issue with Peewee – I’d suggest trying StackOverflow.

[coleifer]

So for mysql:

• pymysql is a pure-python mysql client, works with python 2 and 3. Peewee will use attempt to use pymysql first.
• mysqlclient uses a c extension and supports python 3. It exposes a MySQLdb module. Peewee will attempt to use this module if pymysql is not installed.
• mysql-python is also called MySQLdb1 and is legacy and should not be used. Since this shares the same module name as mysqlclient, same applies.
• mysql-connector python pure-python (I think??) supports python 3. To use this driver you can use playhouse.mysql_ext.MySQLConnectorDatabase.