title: Error loading MySQLdb module: No module named 'MySQLdb'
body: <p>I have tried a lot to solve this issue but I did not solve it. I have searched a lot on google and stackoverflow, no option is working for me. Please help me. Thanks in advance. I am using django 1.10, python 3.4.
  I have tried :</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>pip install mysqldb.</li>
  <li>pip install mysql.</li>
  <li>pip install mysql-python.</li>
  <li>pip install MySQL-python.</li>
  <li>easy_install mysql-python.</li>
  <li>easy_install MySQL-python.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Anything else left ?</p>
  
  <pre><code>      C:\Users\benq\Desktop\dimo-develop\Project&gt;python manage.py runserver
  Unhandled exception in thread started by &lt;function check_errors.&lt;locals&gt;.wrapper at 0x0332D348&gt;
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\db\backends\mysql\base.py", line 25, in &lt;module&gt;
      import MySQLdb as Database
  ImportError: No module named 'MySQLdb'
  
  During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
  
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\utils\autoreload.py", line 226, in wrapper
      fn(*args, **kwargs)
    File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\commands\runserver.py", line 109, in inner_run
      autoreload.raise_last_exception()
    File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\utils\autoreload.py", line 249, in raise_last_exception
      six.reraise(*_exception)
    File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\utils\six.py", line 685, in reraise
      raise value.with_traceback(tb)
    File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\utils\autoreload.py", line 226, in wrapper
      fn(*args, **kwargs)
    File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\__init__.py", line 18, in setup
      apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS)
    File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\apps\registry.py", line 108, in populate
      app_config.import_models(all_models)
    File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\apps\config.py", line 202, in import_models
      self.models_module = import_module(models_module_name)
    File "C:\Python34\lib\importlib\__init__.py", line 109, in import_module
      return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
    File "&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap&gt;", line 2254, in _gcd_import
    File "&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap&gt;", line 2237, in _find_and_load
    File "&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap&gt;", line 2226, in _find_and_load_unlocked
    File "&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap&gt;", line 1200, in _load_unlocked
    File "&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap&gt;", line 1129, in _exec
    File "&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap&gt;", line 1471, in exec_module
    File "&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap&gt;", line 321, in _call_with_frames_removed
    File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\auth\models.py", line 4, in &lt;module&gt;
      from django.contrib.auth.base_user import AbstractBaseUser, BaseUserManager
    File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\auth\base_user.py", line 49, in &lt;module&gt;
      class AbstractBaseUser(models.Model):
    File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\base.py", line 108, in __new__
      new_class.add_to_class('_meta', Options(meta, app_label))
    File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\base.py", line 299, in add_to_class
      value.contribute_to_class(cls, name)
    File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\options.py", line 263, in contribute_to_class
      self.db_table = truncate_name(self.db_table, connection.ops.max_name_length())
    File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\db\__init__.py", line 36, in __getattr__
      return getattr(connections[DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS], item)
    File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\db\utils.py", line 212, in __getitem__
      backend = load_backend(db['ENGINE'])
    File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\db\utils.py", line 116, in load_backend
      return import_module('%s.base' % backend_name)
    File "C:\Python34\lib\importlib\__init__.py", line 109, in import_module
      return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
    File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\django\db\backends\mysql\base.py", line 28, in &lt;module&gt;
      raise ImproperlyConfigured("Error loading MySQLdb module: %s" % e)
  django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb module: No module named 'MySQLdb'
  </code></pre>