MySQL-python installation error using pip2.7

Question

I have installed Python2.7,virtualenv and pip2.7 in centos6.4 64bit as python2.6 is a default one.

when i try to install mysqldb using

pip2.7 install MySQL-python

error occurs and python-devel package is already installed.

_mysql.c:2551: error: '_mysql_ConnectionObject' has no member named 'open'

_mysql.c:2558: error: '_mysql_ConnectionObject' has no member named 'converter'

_mysql.c:2565: error: '_mysql_ConnectionObject' has no member named 'connection'

_mysql.c:2572: error: '_mysql_ConnectionObject' has no member named 'connection'

_mysql.c:2579: error: '_mysql_ConnectionObject' has no member named 'connection'

_mysql.c:2642: error: '_mysql_ResultObject' has no member named 'converter'

_mysql.c:2642: error: initializer element is not constant

_mysql.c:2642: error: (near initialization for '_mysql_ResultObject_memberlist[0].offset')

_mysql.c: In function '_mysql_ConnectionObject_getattr':

_mysql.c:2666: error: '_mysql_ConnectionObject' has no member named 'open'

error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

----------------------------------------
Cleaning up...
Command /usr/local/bin/python2.7 -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip_build_root/MySQL-python/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize,

'open', open)(file).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), file, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-eNCiSQ-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip_build_root/MySQL-python Storing debug log for failure in /root/.pip/pip.log

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– Cameron, Commented Dec 22, 2014 at 22:14

xnx · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-26 16:25:47Z

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It looks like you don't have the mysql-devel package installed, which is required so that the uncompiled source and header files are available to the MySQL-python package.

As root, run

yum install mysql-devel

and try again!

answered Feb 26, 2016 at 16:25

xnx

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