Use this tag for questions about the MySQL-Python database connector library (MySQLdb). Do not use this tag for questions about MySQL Connector/Python (use the [mysql-connector-python] tag instead).
MySQL-Python, also known as MySQLdb, is a database connector library that implements the Python Database API.
This tag should be used to identify questions related to:
- Installing the MySQL-Python library;
- Using the library to connect to a MySQL database from a Python interpreter or script;
- Specific implementation details of the library; e.g., thread safety, error messages, cursor behavior.
This tag should not be confused with:
- mysql-connector (questions about drivers for interfacing with MySQL in general)
- mysql-connector-python (questions about the MySQL Connector/Python library distributed by Oracle)
The MySQL-Python project is hosted on Sourceforge; however, as of September 2014, a newer package than the one found on Sourceforge (v1.2.4b4) is available from the Python Package Index (v1.2.5).
Andy Dustman (user profile on stackoverflow) has written a detailed User's Guide and maintains a code repository for the project on github.
