Mysql's mysql module

Duncan Booth duncan.booth at invalid.invalid
Mon Oct 7 15:31:47 EDT 2013


Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Tobiah <toby at tobiah.org> wrote:
>> I just noticed this:
>>
>>
>> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-python/en/index.html
> 
> * Does it adhere to the Python database API?
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/
> 
> * Is source available?
> 
> * Does it have a reasonable open source license?
> 
> These questions come immediately to mind because at work we briefly
> considered, then rejected, a similar offering from the Sybase folks
> for connecting to (big surprise) Sybase. We never needed to ask the
> first and third questions, because the answer to the second was, "no",
> and they only offered a version built against Python 2.6. Since we use
> Python 2.4 and 2.7, that was an immediate nonstarter.
> 
> Skip

Based on a quick look at the link given, I think the answers to questions 1 
and 3 are yes and no respectively. No idea about #2.

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