How to config Django using pymysql as driver?

Question

I\'m new to Django. It wasted me whole afternoon to config the MySQL engine. I am very confused about the database engine and the database driver. Is the engine

Answer 1

You can import pymsql so it presents as MySQLdb. You'll need to do this before any django code is run, so put this in your manage.py file

import pymysql
pymysql.install_as_MySQLdb()