python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 on amazon AMI

Question

After pouring over thread after thread regarding this issue I still cannot get rid of this error.

I have a Amazon Linux AMI 2016.03.1 x86_64 HVM GP2 set up on AWS.

When trying to run

sudo pip install mysql-python

I get the Egg_info Code 1 Error

I have tried:

sudo pip install --upgrade setuptools
sudo pip install ez_setup

Further, I ran the ez_setup.py file as suggested but can't solve this issue.

Answer 1

I was able to work around this by using the

pip install mysql-connector-repackaged

package. This is replacing trying to use MySQLdb