It is more portable because it is pure python (mysqldb includes c libraries).
About faster, I remember reading something about that but this everything I could find today: http://code.google.com/p/pymysql/wiki/Performance On Jan 12, 9:40 am, Luther Goh Lu Feng <elf...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Btw, is there a link I can read about pymysql being faster and more > portable? > > On Jan 12, 10:47 pm, Massimo Di Pierro <massimo.dipie...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > that should do it. but why? pymysql is faster and more portable. > > > On Jan 12, 8:38 am, Luther Goh Lu Feng <elf...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > I upgraded a project from 1.87.3 to 1.91.6. Pymysql is one of the new > > > features, replacing mysqldb. > > > > I would like to ask if it is possible to do an override and use > > > mysqldb instead of pymysql. If this is not possible, would editing > > > gluon/dal.py to revert the patch be a possible > > > hack?http://code.google.com/p/web2py/source/diff?spec=svnfc75444ca55590835... > > > > Thanks in advance.
