Re: [Tutor] mySQL and Python

2015-02-18 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 18/02/2015 23:43, Beatrice Perez wrote: Don't worry, thanks everyone for the reply. I realize that the question was very general but I was looking for pointers which is exactly what you guys have given me. Now I know what to read, where to start. --Beatrice On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 9:14 PM, D

Re: [Tutor] mySQL and Python

2015-02-18 Thread Beatrice Perez
Don't worry, thanks everyone for the reply. I realize that the question was very general but I was looking for pointers which is exactly what you guys have given me. Now I know what to read, where to start. --Beatrice On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 9:14 PM, Danny Yoo wrote: > >> I recommend using the

Re: [Tutor] mySQL and Python

2015-02-18 Thread Alan Gauld
On 18/02/15 15:24, James Chapman 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.

Re: [Tutor] mySQL and Python

2015-02-18 Thread Danny Yoo
>> 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

Re: [Tutor] mySQL and Python

2015-02-18 Thread Danny Yoo
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 7:24 AM, James Chapman 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 resp

Re: [Tutor] mySQL and Python

2015-02-18 Thread boB Stepp
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 9:24 AM, James Chapman 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 resp

Re: [Tutor] mySQL and Python

2015-02-18 Thread James Chapman
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 p

Re: [Tutor] mySQL and Python

2015-02-17 Thread Danny Yoo
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 5:49 AM, Beatrice Perez wrote: > I have only ever used php with mySQL so I need some help. What would be the > best library/extension to get? If I use mySQLdb or PyMySQL would I need the > connector as well? Unfortunately, I don't know. Since this is the Tutor mailing li

[Tutor] mySQL and Python

2015-02-17 Thread Beatrice Perez
Hi, I am looking for tools to use mySQL and python. I saw in a question posted in Stack Overflow ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23376103/python-3-4-0-with-mysql-database) that mySQLdb is not compatible with python 3 but the post was 9 months ago. I haven't been able to find updated informati