Help: Using MyODBC with Python

[Gerhard Häring]

* Sabine Richter <sabine at textraeume.de> [2002-05-01 20:58 +0200]:
> Hello,
> 
> I downloaded and installed myODBC 3.51.

Mmh. That is a Unix implementation for ODBC ...

> As far as I understand, it is
> only the driver, which provides the connection to the database. In my
> example, it is MySQL 3.23.49.

So you want to access a MySQL database from Python? Good news! You can
take all that ODBC stuff and feed /dev/null with it. ;-)

There's a Python module for accessing MySQL databases. If that is what
you want, run, don't walk to
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python

This module is an implementation of the Python database API (aka
DB-API), version 2. A lot of Python database resources are available
here:

http://www.python.org/sigs/db-sig/

This might be interested in this article:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2605

while it talks about a different database module, this doesn't matter
much. Thanks to the Python DB-API, the modules all share the same
interface.

Gerhard
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