Unable to install msqlclient for django / python3 [OSX 10.12.4]

when i run python3 manage.py runserver

i get this message:

django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading MySQLdb module: No module named 'MySQLdb'. 
Did you install mysqlclient or MySQL-python?

      

        
        
        
      

    

and because i am using mysql database in python i tried to install mysqlclient with pip3. I am getting another error:

Collecting mysqlclient
  Using cached mysqlclient-1.3.10.tar.gz
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/private/var/folders/dd/vlr9cjt17_j4ccyzz89mld1w0000gn/T/pip-build-wt6g2_0e/mysqlclient/setup.py", line 17, in <module>
        metadata, options = get_config()
      File "/private/var/folders/dd/vlr9cjt17_j4ccyzz89mld1w0000gn/T/pip-build-wt6g2_0e/mysqlclient/setup_posix.py", line 54, in get_config
        libraries = [dequote(i[2:]) for i in libs if i.startswith('-l')]
      File "/private/var/folders/dd/vlr9cjt17_j4ccyzz89mld1w0000gn/T/pip-build-wt6g2_0e/mysqlclient/setup_posix.py", line 54, in <listcomp>
        libraries = [dequote(i[2:]) for i in libs if i.startswith('-l')]
      File "/private/var/folders/dd/vlr9cjt17_j4ccyzz89mld1w0000gn/T/pip-build-wt6g2_0e/mysqlclient/setup_posix.py", line 12, in dequote
        if s[0] in "\"'" and s[0] == s[-1]:
    IndexError: string index out of range  

       ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/dd/vlr9cjt17_j4ccyzz89mld1w0000gn/T/pip-build-wt6g2_0e/mysqlclient/

      

        
        
        
      

    

Also I read online that mysqlclient is not supported by python3, but I get a similar error when trying to install MySQL-python:

 Collecting MySQL-python
  Using cached MySQL-python-1.2.5.zip
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/private/var/folders/dd/vlr9cjt17_j4ccyzz89mld1w0000gn/T/pip-build-jp09s51k/MySQL-python/setup.py", line 13, in <module>
        from setup_posix import get_config
      File "/private/var/folders/dd/vlr9cjt17_j4ccyzz89mld1w0000gn/T/pip-build-jp09s51k/MySQL-python/setup_posix.py", line 2, in <module>
        from ConfigParser import SafeConfigParser
    ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ConfigParser'

     ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/dd/vlr9cjt17_j4ccyzz89mld1w0000gn/T/pip-build-jp09s51k/MySQL-python/

      

        
        
        
      

    

How can I fix this and install the mysql client for python or is there another method so that I can use the MySQL db in python?

Edit: python3 supports mysqlclient, but not MySQL-python.