[Tutor] mySQL and Python

[Danny Yoo]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 7:24 AM, James Chapman <james at uplinkzero.com> wrote:
> One of my pet hates about this list... "This is a tutor list, your question
> is out of scope". Sure there might be better places to seek answers, and
> sure maybe the first responder doesn't know the answer, but that's not a
> reason to respond with that phrase. This list is a called python tutor, not
> python beginner, even if the large majority of the questions are beginner
> questions. The fact that people can ask any python related question is one
> of the things I like about it and wish that other languages had similar
> lists.


I'd like to apologize for the brusqueness in my last reply.  In no way
did I intend to be unfriendly.

I do want to make sure that we stay on mailing list topic.  Sometimes
I get zealous about this, but that's because if the traffic on the
list starts becoming very advanced, it can scare away the very folks
we're trying to help.  That's something that tends to happen when
experts talk to each other.


> I recommend using the official MySQL connector because it's supported by
> MySQL and it's continuously developed, which means it won't stop working
> when you change Python versions, or MySQL versions, and it's documented.
> I've tried some other MySQL libs in the past that worked OK but were a
> nightmare when it came to supporting them due to changes in the environment.

Ah, I missed this one.  Thanks.