Problem:When trying to install and import mysql-connector-python, Python kept throwing an ImportError even after pip install mysql-connector-python.

Cause:The package was installed, but it was installed into a different environment than the one my Python interpreter was using (I hadn’t activated my virtual environment).

# Activate your virtual environment first

source venv/bin/activate # on Linux / macOS

# then install the package

pip install mysql-connector-python

import mysql.connector

After activating the environment and reinstalling, the import worked without errors.