[DB-SIG] MySQLdb module 0.3.1

[Andy Dustman]

An interface to MySQL

Stability: Perfect in every way

Released: 2001-01-22 00:00 UTC
Notes

This release fixes two minor issues with 0.3.0. If they don't otherwise
affect you, you don't need to upgrade. This is a release candidate for
version 1.0.0. The plan is that 1.0.x will be the last version to support
Python-1.5.2 and MySQL-3.22. Version 1.1.x will target MySQL-3.23, the
upcoming MySQL-4.0, and Python-2.x.

MySQL INTEGER columns have a FIELD_TYPE of LONG, which is a C long and
therefore a Python integer. However, INTEGER UNSIGNED may overflow when
converted to a Python integer. Therefore, FIELD_TYPE.LONG is now converted
to a Python long integer. To revert to the old behavior:

import MySQLdb
MySQLdb.type_conv[MySQLdb.FIELD_TYPE.LONG]=int

MySQL-3.23.29a broke the version parsing. Don't use 3.23.29a. At the time
of writing, 3.23.32 (stable) is the current version.

MySQLdb now looks for the server variable have_bdb (YES) to determine
whether or not transactions can be performed. You need at least
MySQL-3.23.30 for this.

Documentation has been brought up-to-date.

Note that all Linux binaries here are compiled with Python-1.5.2,
MySQL-3.23.32, Red Hat 6.2, and RPM 4.0 (where applicable).

Windows binaries may show up at http://highqualdev.com

http://dustman.net/andy/python/MySQLdb/0.3.1

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