You can instead use the mysqlclient
package as a drop-in replacement for MySQL-python. It is a fork of MySQL-python
with added support for Python 3.
I had luck with simply
pip install mysqlclient
in my python3.4 virtualenv after
sudo apt-get install python3-dev libmysqlclient-dev
which is obviously specific to ubuntu/debian, but I just wanted to share my success 🙂