Faced same problem after migrating to python 3. Apparently, MySQL-python is incompatible, so as per official django docs, installed mysqlclient using pip install mysqlclient
on Mac. Note that there are some OS specific issues mentioned in docs.
Quoting from docs:
Prerequisites
You may need to install the Python and MySQL development headers and libraries like so:
sudo apt-get install python-dev default-libmysqlclient-dev
# Debian / Ubuntu
sudo yum install python-devel mysql-devel
# Red Hat / CentOS
brew install mysql-connector-c
# macOS (Homebrew) (Currently, it has bug. See below)On Windows, there are binary wheels you can install without MySQLConnector/C or MSVC.
Note on Python 3 : if you are using python3 then you need to install python3-dev using the following command :
sudo apt-get install python3-dev
# debian / Ubuntu
sudo yum install python3-devel
# Red Hat / CentOSNote about bug of MySQL Connector/C on macOS
See also: https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=86971
Versions of MySQL Connector/C may have incorrect default configuration options that cause compilation errors when
mysqlclient-python
is installed. (As of November 2017, this is known to be true for homebrew’smysql-connector-c
and official package)