In addition to everything that Simon said (which is correct): If you are using the Anaconda Scientific Python distribution, you might not want to use MySQL.
Searching for "anaconda mysqldb windows python" turns up a lot of stories about people having trouble doing this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25228687/how-to-use-mysql-with-anacondas-python-ide If you want to use anaconda and your version has a package manger, you may have better luck installing the `PyMySQL` (pure python mysql dbapi) and the corresponding sqlalchemy dialect -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.