Choosing a MySQL interface

[Jim Severino]

Bob

I had some of the same issues installing on RH Linux 5.2, and
eventually got it working, but it does say in build.py that the script
will "probably only work on UNIX". I basically had to do what build.by
does by hand, and manually edit the Makefile until it worked. I don;t
fully understand what I did, but it seems to have worked.

Anyways, now I'm trying to figure out how to use some stuff from in the
db-api 2.0 spec. In particular the executemany() method has me
confused. It would've helped to have some examples in the spec!

Myabe I can look at someone else's code...

jim


In article <7r6t12$b3t at nnrp3.farm.idt.net>,
  "Bob Kline" <bobklin at idt.net> wrote:
> jims <aardvark_three at yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:rtcnbgef1iv21 at corp.supernews.com...
>
> > I'm a bit of a Python newbie, and am building an app
> > that uses a MySQL database (the latest version) as the back
> > end.
>
> > I wonder if anyone can tell me whuich is the currently "correct"
> > way to connect to a MySQL database using Python. There
> > appear to be several methods available (like here and here)
> > but I can't tell which one is the right one to use at this time.
>
> The advantage of the first package to which you refer
> (MySQLmodule) is that it appears to build properly on the
> two platforms I've tried it on.  The advantage of the second
> package (MySQLdb) is that it conforms to the new standard
> API for database access using Python.  Unfortunately,
> although I've succeded in getting the second package
> working on Linux, the build fails on NT.  I posted a
> message last week reporting the error messages I got
> and asking what components are missing from the win32
> Python distribution that are needed to make the error
> messages go away, but no one seems to know the
> answer.
>
> I hope you have better luck finding knowledgable folks on
> this list.  Of course, if your db client is on UNIX or Linux,
> you may not have any problems.
>
> Bob
>
>

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