Python 3.3 no module named MySQLdb, cymysql installed - mysql

Question

Working through the introductory Django project tutorial on the official site. I have successfully installed the CyMySQL 0.5.5 connector through pip. The server status is "Running". For the command python manage.py syncdb this is what powershell returns. Could this have something to do with the DATABASES section of settings.py file having wrong parameters? :
C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\win32\lib\pywintypes.py:39: DeprecationWarning: imp.get_suffixes() is deprecated; use
constants defined on importlib.machinery instead
for suffix_item in imp.get_suffixes():
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\django\db\backends\mysql\base.py", line 14, in <module>
import MySQLdb as Database
ImportError: No module named 'MySQLdb'
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "manage.py", line 10, in <module>
execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py", line 399, in execute_from_command_line
utility.execute()
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py", line 392, in execute
self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\base.py", line 242, in run_from_argv
self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\base.py", line 280, in execute
translation.activate('en-us')
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\django\utils\translation\__init__.py", line 130, in activate
return _trans.activate(language)
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\django\utils\translation\trans_real.py", line 188, in activate
_active.value = translation(language)
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\django\utils\translation\trans_real.py", line 177, in translation
default_translation = _fetch(settings.LANGUAGE_CODE)
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\django\utils\translation\trans_real.py", line 159, in _fetch
app = import_module(appname)
File "C:\Python33\Lib\importlib\__init__.py", line 90, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1584, in _gcd_import
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1565, in _find_and_load
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1532, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 584, in _check_name_wrapper
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1022, in load_module
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1003, in load_module
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 560, in module_for_loader_wrapper
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 868, in _load_module
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 313, in _call_with_frames_removed
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\admin\__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
from django.contrib.admin.sites import AdminSite, site
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\admin\sites.py", line 4, in <module>
from django.contrib.admin.forms import AdminAuthenticationForm
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\admin\forms.py", line 6, in <module>
from django.contrib.auth.forms import AuthenticationForm
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\auth\forms.py", line 17, in <module>
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\auth\models.py", line 48, in <module>
class Permission(models.Model):
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\base.py", line 96, in __new__
new_class.add_to_class('_meta', Options(meta, **kwargs))
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\base.py", line 264, in add_to_class
value.contribute_to_class(cls, name)
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\options.py", line 124, in contribute_to_class
self.db_table = truncate_name(self.db_table, connection.ops.max_name_length())
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\django\db\__init__.py", line 34, in __getattr__
return getattr(connections[DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS], item)
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\django\db\utils.py", line 198, in __getitem__
backend = load_backend(db['ENGINE'])
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\django\db\utils.py", line 113, in load_backend
return import_module('%s.base' % backend_name)
File "C:\Python33\Lib\importlib\__init__.py", line 90, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\django\db\backends\mysql\base.py", line 17, in <module>
raise ImproperlyConfigured("Error loading MySQLdb module: %s" % e)
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb module: No module named 'MySQLdb'

Answer 1

Please use django-cymysql and latest cymysql
djang-cymysql https://github.com/nakagami/django-cymysql/
cymysql 0.7.2 https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cymysql/0.7.2
and use 'mysql_cymysql' ENGINE