macos - python setup.py egg_info mysqlclient

Question

Trying to install mysqlclient using pip3 on 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/

Already did

brew install mysql-connector-c

But still getting this error

Answer 1

This worked for me:

1. brew install mysql-connector-c

2. edit mysql_config (locate it: which mysql_config)

correct this in mysql_config:

# Create options 
libs="-L$pkglibdir"
libs="$libs -l "

It shoud be:

# Create options 
libs="-L$pkglibdir"
libs="$libs -lmysqlclient -lssl -lcrypto"

4. brew info openssl
5. and finally pip3 install mysqlclient