On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 09:55:23 -0800 Tim Johnson <t...@akwebsoft.com> <t...@akwebsoft.com> wrote:
> See the thread titled "Python libraries portable?" you will note > that Corey Richardson makes the statement that MySQLdb is a C > extension. I accepted that statement, but upon looking at the > directories (I am on Mac Lion, but believe it may be the same for > Linux) I see no binaries, just straight .py and .pyc files. > http://mysql-python.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/mysql-python/MySQLdb-2.0/file/566baac88764/src It definitely is. The C extension part is the '_mysql' module, here it is /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_mysql.so. MySQLdb (of which _mysql is a part) uses that to provide a DB-API 2.0 compliant API. > *However* as it often turns out, I was barking up the wrong tree. > (I haven't followed this thread at all besides noticing this message) -- Corey Richardson -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
