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This package contains a pure-Python MySQL client library. The goal of PyMySQL is to be a drop-in replacement for MySQLdb and work on CPython, PyPy, IronPython and Jython.
- Python 2.6, 2.7 or 3.3
- MySQL 4.1 or higher
- protocol41 support, experimental 4.0 support
The last stable release is available on PyPI and can be installed with pip:
$ pip install PyMySQL
Alternatively (e.g. if pip is not available), a tarball can be downloaded
from GitHub and installed with Setuptools:
$ # X.X is the desired PyMySQL version (e.g. 0.5 or 0.6). $ curl -L https://github.com/PyMySQL/PyMySQL/tarball/pymysql-X.X | tar xz $ cd PyMySQL* $ python setup.py install $ # The folder PyMySQL* can be safely removed now.
If you would like to run the test suite, first copy the file
.travis.databases.json to pymysql/tests/databases.json and edit the new
file to match your MySQL configuration:
$ cp .travis.databases.json pymysql/tests/databases.json $ $EDITOR pymysql/tests/databases.json
To run all the tests, execute the script runtests.py:
$ python runtests.py
A tox.ini file is also provided for conveniently running tests on multiple
Python versions:
$ tox
DB-API 2.0: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249
MySQL Reference Manuals: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/
MySQL client/server protocol: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/internals/en/client-server-protocol.html
PyMySQL mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pymysql-users
PyMySQL is released under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.