Pip install mysql-python / mysqlclient returns index error

I've run all sorts of myql connectors I can find, but all of them, after I:

pip install mysqldb-python

ends up with the following error:

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    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/private/var/folders/6j/7lsh4_b55vz24ht7xv83syq0t4yg60/T/pip-build-KAOKCO/mysqlclient/setup.py", line 17, in <module>
        metadata, options = get_config()
      File "setup_posix.py", line 54, in get_config
        libraries = [dequote(i[2:]) for i in libs if i.startswith('-l')]
      File "setup_posix.py", line 12, in dequote
        if s[0] in "\"'" and s[0] == s[-1]:
    IndexError: string index out of range

      

        
        
        
      

    

all mysql dbs seem to have this problem ... but not other packages via pip (e.g. queries)