Python 3 and mysql through SQLAlchemy

Question

Currently:

• SQLAlchemy installed and working (or at least import v0.8.0b2)
• Mysql (v5.5.16)
• Distribute (0.6.34)
• Oracle mysql-python co

Answer 1

I was successful in getting Oracle's MySQL connector for python working with SQLAlchemy on Python 3.3. Your connection string needs to start with "mysql+mysqlconnector://...". After I changed my connection string everything (well, simple things) started working.

The MySQL connector docs can be found here: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-python/en/

The package is up on PyPi: https://pypi.org/project/mysql-connector-python/

Here are the SQLAlchemy docs about using the Python connector: http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/dialects/mysql.html#module-sqlalchemy.dialects.mysql.mysqlconnector