Re: Django 1.6.0 over python 3: mysql?

[ajendrex]

I decided to use postgresql and move on :)

On Friday, November 23, 2012 11:02:10 AM UTC-3, ajendrex wrote:

Hello,

I'm new to django and I'm going directly to use it over python 3 (I have been using python 3 for mor than one year). However, the MySQLdb library doesn't support python 3 yet. Is there a way of connecting django to mysql over python3? If not, any plan to get it in the near future?

[Russell Keith-Magee]

Hi,

The short answer is that MySQLdb is outside the control of the Django project. Django itself is now Python 3 compatible. The compatibility of other libraries is up to their respective maintainers.

That said, I doubt you'll regret the move to PostgreSQL :-)

Yours,

Russ Magee %-)

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[Ian Clelland]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 6:02 AM, ajendrex <hurb...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I'm new to django and I'm going directly to use it over python 3 (I have been using python 3 for mor than one year). However, the MySQLdb library doesn't support python 3 yet. Is there a way of connecting django to mysql over python3? If not, any plan to get it in the near future?

I'm sorry I didn't see this when you asked (two weeks ago now).

I wholeheartedly support your move to PostgreSQL, but if anyone else on the list is stuck in the same situation, about a year ago I adapted the Django MySQL backend to use PyMySQL[1], which is a pure python interface to MySQL, is essentially a drop-in replacement for MySQLdb, and *is* Python 3-compatible.

You can just easy_install (or pip install) django-mysql-pymysql, and use 'mysql_pymysql' as your database backend, and you should be set.

If it breaks, feel free to submit improvements at https://github.com/clelland/django-mysql-pymysql :)

Alternately, you could wait a bit; Andy Dustman mentioned on his blog a couple of months ago that a soon-upcoming version of MySQLdb could be released with Python 3 support [2]

[1] https://github.com/petehunt/PyMySQL

[2] http://mysql-python.blogspot.ca/2012/09/a-brief-history-of-mysqldb.html

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