ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘MySQLdb’

After finishing of one of my Flask projects, I uploaded it on github just like everybody else. after a 2-3 months period I downloaded the entire githube repository on another machine to run it. However, the app is not working because the packages are not found giving the following message

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘Flask’

So I ended up downloading all packages starting from Flask, SQLalchemy,..etc! but I got stuck with MySQLdb:

(MYAPPENV) C:\Users\hp\myapp>python run.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "run.py", line 1, in <module>
    from app import app
  File "C:\Users\hp\myapp\app\__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
    from instance.config import engine
  File "C:\Users\hp\myapp\instance\config.py", line 52, in <module>
    engine = create_engine("mysql://root:root@localhost/MYAPPDB")
  File "C:\Users\hp\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\engine\__init__.py", line 425, in create_engine
return strategy.create(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\hp\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\engine\strategies.py", line 81, in create
dbapi = dialect_cls.dbapi(**dbapi_args)
  File "C:\Users\hp\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy\dialects\mysql\mysqldb.py", line 102, in dbapi
    return __import__('MySQLdb')
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'MySQLdb'

Could anybody please help with this issue? I am using python37 on windows machine. I even tried downloading packages such as mysqlclient,..etc but it didn’t work out.

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