googleappengine+mysqldb

[Smita Korgaonkar]

I installed MySQLdb in python2.6. Using python 2.6 I run application
which was developed in googleappengine.
I import that using statement

import MySQLdb
I got following error

ImportError: No module named MySQLdb

[ This module available when I import from python prompt ]
What can I do for that

[Tim Hoffman]

Hi

Mysql db backend isn't available inside the appengine environment.  (There will be an option some day)

Alternately if your trying to connect to a remote mysql db (outside appengine) you would need a pure python 

implementation as most mysql client libs are based on c extensions.

However even if you had one of those (here is one https://github.com/petehunt/PyMySQL/wiki/PyMySQL:-Pure-Python-MySQL-Client)

it wouldn't do you a lot of good as mysql wire protocol isn't based on http (all outgoing connections need to be fundamentally based on http)

So you would need a http abstraction layer (or rest interface or something else) to connect to some remote mysqldb.

I think you need to have a read of the overview and getting started for appengine. I might give you a better idea about what you can/can't do 

with appengine  http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/overview.html

Rgds

Tim

P.S. Save your self some problems and use python 2.5 (ad then skip to 2.7 when support for it comes out)

[Smita Korgaonkar]

[Robert Kluin]

You can't use modules based on c-extensions with App Engine. You can
also only communicate via http, so it wouldn't matter even if you
could.
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/runtime.html#The_Sandbox

They are planning SQL support in the 'near' future. Tobias Rodäbel
has put together a nice example of how to use it. Note that this will
not work on production yet.
https://github.com/rodaebel/simplenotes

Robert

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