On 11/17/2010 10:19 PM, Tim Harig wrote: > On 2010-11-18, Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote: >> On 11/17/2010 7:21 PM, Tim Harig wrote: >>> On 2010-11-18, dave <davidrey...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/ >>>> >>>> Using this package, WITHOUT having MySQL installed on my Mac OS X, how >>>> can I use python to connect to a remote MySQL server? >>>> >>>> All of the tutorials mention having to download MySQL! >>> >>> You don't have to install all of MySQL, just the client libraries. I would >>> assume that almost every MySQL connector uses these libraries; but, you >>> might see if the MySQL-ODBC connector will work without them. It is a long >>> shot. Your last option would be to recreate your own connector without >>> using the MySQL client libraries. I am not really sure what the purpose of >>> reinventing this wheel would be. >> >> I believe that the coming trend is to implement the MySQL client >> protocol directly in Python, thereby obviating the need for any MySQL >> client installation on the machine hosting the Python code. > > One of the advantages to using the MySQL supplied library is that if the > line protocol changes the connector automatically inherits the work already > done by MySQL for the price of a stable API (yes, I am aware that the MySQL > API *has* changed through the years). That could be very relevant in the > near future as the probject settles its stable forks. > >> The pymysql project at http://code.google.com/p/pymysql/ is one such >> solution, aimed at satisfying Python 3 users without the need to port >> existing low-level client code. > > That still looks like alpha code. Would you be willing to make a statement > as to its stability?
No, that was purely an example. I am, however, using MySQL Connector/Python https://launchpad.net/myconnpy in a series of commercial Python 3 classes. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 PyCon 2011 Atlanta March 9-17 http://us.pycon.org/ See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
