Is it possible to use Mysql with SqlAlchemy and Flask if my mysql socket isn't in /tmp?

Question

The location for mysql.sock on my system is /usr/local/mysql5/mysqld.sock

thrilllap-2:tmp reuven$ mysqld --print-defaults
mysqld would have          


        

Answer 1

Yes! Sean was right

app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] = ''mysql://dayenu:secret.word@localhost/dayenu?unix_socket=/usr/local/mysql5/mysqld.sock
db = SQLAlchemy(app)

works fine! I think this parameter is used by pyodbc, which is what SQLAlchemy uses to talk to mysql, but I couldn't find this parameter anywhere in the pyodbc documentation.