[DB-SIG] PEP 249

[Sigurd Jervelund Hansen]

Hi

I'm using the PEP249 as a reference, and I've stumbled upon some
contradicting documentation in footnote 1.

If I attempt to connect to a database using the example I get the following
error:

>>> connect(host=dbHost,user=dbUser,password=dbPassword,database=dbName)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MySQLdb/__init__.py", line
81, in Connect
    return Connection(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py",
line 193, in __init__
    super(Connection, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs2)
TypeError: 'database' is an invalid keyword argument for this function

Changing parameter database to db:

>>> connect(host=dbHost,user=dbUser,password=dbPassword,db=dbName)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MySQLdb/__init__.py", line
81, in Connect
    return Connection(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py",
line 193, in __init__
    super(Connection, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs2)
TypeError: 'password' is an invalid keyword argument for this function

Changing parameter password to passwd:

>>> connect(host=dbHost,user=dbUser,passwd=dbPassword,db=dbName)
<_mysql.connection open to 'mysql-host' at 217e660>

In short: Parameter password should be passwd and database should be db.

Direct link to footnote <https://mail.google.com/>:
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/#id40
Link to stackoverflow with working example:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/372885/how-do-i-connect-to-a-mysql-database-in-python

Best regards
Sigurd J. Hansen
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