Happening OSX does not have the connection library by default. If you are on linux, you can install these via the instructions at the mysqlclient github page. An easy way to do this on a Mac is to run brew install mysql-connector-c Note: you will need the mysql-developer tools installed. This library talks to the MySQL client's C-interface, and is faster than the pure-python pymysql libray.

It is a fork of mysql-python ( also known as MySQLdb) that supports Python 3+ (Optional) If you are planning to use the Vision Sensor, you will likely need to also install the VEX Vision Utility to set up signatures. Run brew install-cask pros-editor to install the PROS Editor (the CLI will also be installed). pip install MySQL-pythonįor Python 3+ the mysql-python library is broken. Run brew tap purduesigbots/pros to register the PROS Homebrew repository with Homebrew. Install mysql via homebrew, then you can install mysql python via pip. pymysql can be slower than MySQLdb but you'll have to see if you notice that, it is also under a different license (MIT for pymysql, GPL for MySQLdb) pymysql follows the same API as MySQLdb, it can essentially be used as a drop in replacement.Īlso, it used to be that MySQLdb, did not work with Python 3, but this may have changed, pymysql didn't have that problem which also induced me to switch, this may have changed though. XCode and the command line tools (as suggested by Install homebrewĪnother option is to use pymysql it is a pure Python client connection to MySQL so you don't have to mess around with compiling, a good exercise, but it can be frustrating if you are just trying to get something done.Here's what I would install, especially if you want to use homebrew:

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