Recommended MySQL Setup Does Not Work Properly

[ReStartercc]

Python 3.6.1
Django 2.0
Mac OS 10.13.3

Following the instruction given in ​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/ref/databases/#mysql-notes, installed pymysql with pip and then modified the settings.py to set up the adaptor according to ​https://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-python/en/connector-python-django-backend.html, the url given by the official document.

Then when executing python3 manage.py makemigrations error appears which displays ImportError: No module named 'MySQLdb. It is likely that django still uses MySQLdb, which is not supported by python3, as default in the release.

The fix that works for me would be adding following code in the __init__.py of the site to use pymysql to replace mysqldb.

import pymysql
pymysql.install_as_MySQLdb()

[Tim Graham]

Please give a complete traceback of the ImportError. I don't see any MySQLdb imports outside of django.db.backends.mysql so am not sure how this could happen if your settings points to the 'mysql.connector.django' engine.