On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 6:02 AM, ajendrex <hurbi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > I'm new to django and I'm going directly to use it over python 3 (I have > been using python 3 for mor than one year). However, the MySQLdb library > doesn't support python 3 yet. Is there a way of connecting django to mysql > over python3? If not, any plan to get it in the near future? > > I'm sorry I didn't see this when you asked (two weeks ago now). I wholeheartedly support your move to PostgreSQL, but if anyone else on the list is stuck in the same situation, about a year ago I adapted the Django MySQL backend to use PyMySQL[1], which is a pure python interface to MySQL, is essentially a drop-in replacement for MySQLdb, and *is* Python 3-compatible. You can just easy_install (or pip install) django-mysql-pymysql, and use 'mysql_pymysql' as your database backend, and you should be set. If it breaks, feel free to submit improvements at https://github.com/clelland/django-mysql-pymysql :) Alternately, you could wait a bit; Andy Dustman mentioned on his blog a couple of months ago that a soon-upcoming version of MySQLdb could be released with Python 3 support [2] [1] https://github.com/petehunt/PyMySQL [2] http://mysql-python.blogspot.ca/2012/09/a-brief-history-of-mysqldb.html -- Regards, Ian Clelland <clell...@gmail.com> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
