django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb module.

Install

Django needs to load the MySQLdb module to use the MySQL database, and the mysqlclient needs to be installed. If you have already installed it, please skip it. (We installed the pymysql module before Django2.2, but now we use mysqlclient)

pip install mysqlclient

If the installation is wrong, then download to the local to install
Execute the command to check the python version and system digits (32/64 bits)
C:\Users\Administrator>python Python 3.8.2 (tags/v3.8.2:7b3ab59, Feb 25 2020, 22:45:29) [MSC v.1916 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

• Access URL: mysqlclient

• Download a corresponding installation package as the current system directory:
  Mysqlclient: a fork of the MySQL-python interface for the MySQL database. mysqlclient‑1.4.6‑pp373‑pypy36_pp73‑win32.whl mysqlclient‑1.4.6‑cp39‑cp39‑win_amd64 .whl mysqlclient‑1.4.6‑cp39‑cp39‑win32.whl mysqlclient‑1.4.6‑cp38‑cp38‑win_amd64.whl ✔ mysqlclient‑1.4.6‑cp38‑cp38‑win32.whl mysqlclient‑1.4.6‑
  cp37‑ cp37m‑win_amd64.whl mysqlclient‑1.4.6‑cp37‑cp37m‑win32.whl mysqlclient‑1.4.6‑cp36‑cp36m‑win_amd64.whl mysqlclient‑1.4.6‑cp36‑cp36m‑win32.whl mysqlclient‑1.4.6‑ cp35‑cp35m‑win_amd64.whl mysqlclient‑1.4.6‑cp35‑cp35m‑win32.whl mysqlclient‑1.4.6‑cp27‑cp27m‑win_amd64.whl mysqlclient‑1.4.6‑cp27‑cp27m‑win32.whl Just download the corresponding
  version

• Execute the installation:
  pip install mysqlclient‑1.4.6‑cp38‑cp38‑win32.whl

Even if it is already installed, it still reports an error

The content of the error report is that mysqlclient cannot be found
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb module. Did you install mysqlclient?

usual solution

1. Add in __init__.py in the project (settings.py same level) directory

import pymysql
pymysql.install_as_MySQLdb()

2. force reinstall
   pip install mysqlclient‑1.4.6‑cp38‑cp38‑win32.whl --force-reinstall