Trying to put mysqlclient through pip3 for Python 3.6.0

$ pip3 install mysqlclient Collecting mysqlclient Using cached mysqlclient-1.3.10.tar.gz Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/private/var/folders/3k/08g3yx_12kg99kyfs989md600000gn/T/pip-build-1qv_89jc/mysqlclient/setup.py", line 17, in <module> metadata, options = get_config() File "/private/var/folders/3k/08g3yx_12kg99kyfs989md600000gn/T/pip-build-1qv_89jc/mysqlclient/setup_posix.py", line 54, in get_config libraries = [dequote(i[2:]) for i in libs if i.startswith('-l')] File "/private/var/folders/3k/08g3yx_12kg99kyfs989md600000gn/T/pip-build-1qv_89jc/mysqlclient/setup_posix.py", line 54, in <listcomp> libraries = [dequote(i[2:]) for i in libs if i.startswith('-l')] File "/private/var/folders/3k/08g3yx_12kg99kyfs989md600000gn/T/pip-build-1qv_89jc/mysqlclient/setup_posix.py", line 12, in dequote if s[0] in "\"'" and s[0] == s[-1]: IndexError: string index out of range ---------------------------------------- Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/3k/08g3yx_12kg99kyfs989md600000gn/T/pip-build-1qv_89jc/mysqlclient/

Installing mysql-connector-c didn't help either

 brew install mysql-connector-c

1 answer 1

There was the same problem. Remove mysql-connector-c, then do the following:

 brew install mysql pip3 install mysqlclient

To remove mysql-connector-c:

 brew uninstall mysql-connector-c