Installation on Ubuntu 20.04 - cannot find mysql-connector-python

I have tried this every possible way. Following the documented installation instructions, I ran:

pip install csvkit
pip install mysql-connector-python
csvsql -v mysql://user:password@host/db --insert file.csv

This results in the following, which seems to suggest that it’s failing to load or make use of SQLAlchemy. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/brian/.local/bin/csvsql", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(launch_new_instance())
  File "/home/brian/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/csvkit/utilities/csvsql.py", line 221, in launch_new_instance
    utility.run()
  File "/home/brian/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/csvkit/cli.py", line 118, in run
    self.main()
  File "/home/brian/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/csvkit/utilities/csvsql.py", line 110, in main
    raise ImportError('You don\'t appear to have the necessary database backend installed for connection string you\'re trying to use. Available backends include:\n\nPostgresql:\tpip install psycopg2\nMySQL:\t\tpip install mysql-connector-python\n\nFor details on connection strings and other backends, please see the SQLAlchemy documentation on dialects at: \n\nhttp://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/dialects/\n\n')
ImportError: You don't appear to have the necessary database backend installed for connection string you're trying to use. Available backends include:

Postgresql:     pip install psycopg2
MySQL:          pip install mysql-connector-python

For details on connection strings and other backends, please see the SQLAlchemy documentation on dialects at: 

http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/dialects/

[mstralka]

@sido420 I dug through the SQLAlchemy documentation and read this warning for the mysql-connector-python: https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/14/dialects/mysql.html#module-sqlalchemy.dialects.mysql.mysqlconnector

So I switched to the mysqldb module homepage client and installed it like this on Ubuntu 20.04 with python 3:

sudo apt install python3-dev default-libmysqlclient-dev build-essential
pip3 install csvkit
pip3 install mysqlclient

Then I changed my connection string like this:

mysql+mysqldb://user:pass@host/database

That made csvsql work. Hope that helps

[gmuc]

“Hope that helps” > it helps perfect, the usage of pip3 is the point (not pip!!!)