[Python-ideas] Official MySQL module

[David Mertz]

I disagree moderately with Dustin.  Obviously, it is true that a magic wand
doesn't produce a standard-library module.  However, having support for
MySQL/MariaDB (and PostgreSQL) in the standard library would be desirable.
This would bring MySQL support to the same level as we have for SQLite3.

In particular, I would NOT WANT such standard library support to include
any ORM layer to it; I feel like those should remain as third-party tools
(and compete on their various merits).  But the basic level of providing a
*binding* feels like something desirable (and specifically, a binding that
was as close to a drop-in substitute for 'sqlite3' as possible).


On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin at v.igoro.us>wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Thomas Allen <jsbfox at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi, there! Do you plan to add an official module for connecting to MySQL
> > databases? Existing third-party modules are bad-documented or no longer
> > maintained... That's kinda strange, that such a nice language doesn't
> have
> > it yet.
>
> Where would such a module come from?  The PSF can't wave a magic
> "official" flag and will software into existence.  Someone needs to
> write it.
>
> I suspect from your use of the term "third party", that you come from
> the world of proprietary software.  In OSS, we're all mutual third
> parties.
>
> There are several nice MySQL bindings out there.  Just about everyone
> uses Python-MySQL, but I've recently given my heart to PyMySQL, since
> it's pure python and thus a lot easier to install.  If I recall from
> the SQLAlchemy docs, there are a few others out there.  So I suspect
> that your basic premise is incorrect: there's lots of good options out
> there, and in fact several tools to abstract the differences between
> them (SQLAlchemy being my choice).  I don't think the community would
> be well-served by selecting one as the default implementation.
>
> Dustin
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