MySQL-module

dave white dwhite2 at seas.upenn.edu
Fri Apr 7 18:04:17 EDT 2000


I use MySQLdb.  It works very nicely and utilizes the python db-api.  It
uses some c that has to be compiled, but you don't have to recompile
python itself.

david

Thomas Weholt wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I`m going to try MySQL and want to access stuff using Python. At Python.org
> I found to links to two different modules, one written in python, the other
> C. Is there a special reason for choosing one over the other?
> 
> I`d like to use all python, not compile anything cuz I`m scared python won`t
> work anymore. Had this problem earlier with re-compilation of python. zlib
> etc. didn`t work anymore.
> 
> Any tips? I can create the actual databases/tables manually, but need to
> acces/insert/manipulate the data from a python-script.
> 
> Thomas



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