Django connecting to MySQL via Mysql-connector fails

Hi, I'm learning django with PyDev, MySQL as backend. According to doc I used Oracle's MySQL connector to communicate with db:

The Python Database API is described in PEP 249. MySQL has two prominent drivers that implement this API:

• MySQLdb is a native driver that has been developed and supported for over a decade by Andy Dustman.
• MySQL Connector/Python is a pure Python driver from Oracle that does not require the MySQL client library or any Python modules outside the standard library.

Both drivers are thread-safe and both provide connection pooling. The major difference is that MySQL Connector/Python supports Python 3.

However I got this error when I ran manage.py migrate in PyDev.

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'

I checked the basefile it only imports MySQLdb.

try:

    import MySQLdb as Database

except ImportError as e:

    from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured

    raise ImproperlyConfigured("Error loading MySQLdb module: %s" % e)

Below is my settings:

DATABASES = {

    'default': {

        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',

        'NAME': "djangolearn",

        'USER': 'root',

        'PASSWORD': '',

        'HOST': '127.0.0.1',

        'PORT': '3306',

        'CONN_MAX_AGE': 0    # set connection life

    }

}

What's wrong here? Does it mean I need MySQLdb to use MySQL connector?

Thanks!

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