I am receiving the error: ImportError: No module named MySQLdb whenever I try to run my local dev server and it is driving me crazy. I have tried everything I could find online:

brew install mysql
pip install mysqldb
pip install mysql
pip install mysql-python
pip install MySQL-python
easy_install mysql-python
easy_install MySQL-python
pip install mysqlclient

I am running out of options and can't figure out why I continue to receive this error. I am attempting to run my local dev server from using Google App Engine on a macOS Sierra system and I am using python version 2.7. I am also running: source env/bin/activate at the directory my project files are and am installing all dependencies there as well. My path looks like this: 
/usr/local/bin/python:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/usr/local/opt/node@6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin
Does anyone have further ideas I can attempt to resolve this issue?
Turns out I had the wrong python being pointed to in my virtualenv. It comes preinstalled with its own default python version and so, I created a new virtualenv and used the -p to set the python path to my own local python path.
VirtualEnv ImportError: No module named MySQLdb