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Is MySQLdb hard to install? 16 Nov 2012 | 10:18 pm
The short answer is: No. The longer answer is: It depends. With the latest version, most of the time, you can run: pip install MySQL-python and you're done... if you have the prerequisites. That's w...
MySQLdb-1.2.4 release candidate 1 2 Nov 2012 | 08:06 pm
I've finally about finished up 1.2.4. Please give 1.2.4c1 a try. I plan to make the final release next week sometime. 1.2.4 will support Python 2.4, but it's not tested, and won't be supported in 1.3...
A brief history of MySQLdb 25 Sep 2012 | 06:32 am
It was recently pointed out to me what a confusing mess the source repositories were for MySQLdb, so I spent a good bit of time cleaning them up. To understand how things got into the state they were ...
MySQLdb book and other news 20 Sep 2012 | 06:44 pm
Did you know there is a book specifically addressing how to use MySQLdb? MySQL for Python was published by Packt Publishing in September 2010. If you're worried about two years being an eternity on th...
Asynchronous programming and MySQLdb 23 Feb 2010 | 11:11 am
It was asked in the previous post whether or not there would be better async support in MySQLdb-2.0. The answer is a qualified yes. libmysqlclient (the MySQL C client library) has blocking calls, and...
New releases coming soon 23 Feb 2010 | 06:48 am
Kyle Vanderbeek is going to take over as release manager for MySQLdb-1.2. We should have one more release candidate of 1.2.3 first, followed quickly by the final release. Development on MySQLdb-2.0 h...
MySQL-python-1.2.3 beta 2 released 20 Mar 2009 | 02:43 am
I released the second beta of MySQLdb-1.2.3 over the weekend. So far I've gotten a fair number of downloads but not a lot of feedback. I did find out though what small tweaking is required to build on...
Sprinting at PyCon 2009 22 Feb 2009 | 07:15 am
I've got a sprint scheduled now for PyCon 2009. I can only be there for the first day of sprints. If there's enough interest, we can probably find a way to sprint earlier during some of the open space...
Project Status: Community Participation Needed 2 Feb 2009 | 09:49 am
John Eikenberry has taken over work on ZMySQLDA for some time now and has released ZMySQLDA 3.1. I don't have any ongoing Zope deployment except some Zenoss, and use MySQLdb directly, so I'm not a goo...
Zenoss Deathmatch 15 May 2008 | 03:27 pm
I've been working for the last week on implementing Zenoss to replace Nagios and Cacti. Individually Nagios and Cacti are pretty good at what they do, but they don't integrate well. Nagios is primari...
