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

Answer 2

For others who arrive here, this should do it:

• pip install mysql-connector==2.1.4 # version avoids Protobuf error
• URI = 'mysql+mysqlconnector://$USER:$PASS@$HOST/$DB'

Answer 3

I tried Oracle's connection, as suggested by @Brad Campbell, but unfortunately it was extremely slow, much slower than the "real" MySQL-Python connection I had been using with SQLAlchemy on Python 2.

After checking SQLAlchemy themselves,

http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/dialects/mysql.html#module-sqlalchemy.dialects.mysql.mysqldb

To use MySQL-Python on Python 3, they recommend a fork of it, mysqlclient,

https://github.com/PyMySQL/mysqlclient-python

It is available via pip with pip install mysqlclient, but there are almost certainly other steps you'll need to do to set it up initially. After that though, I was seeing the performance go back to what I was used to, which was about 5x faster than with Oracle's connector.

Answer 4

I've gotten oursql + SQLAlchemy 0.8.1 + Python 3.3 to work. Building off of LukeCarrier's port, I modified oursql.c to use the correct import levels, and it worked! Try this, and be sure to follow the readme:

https://github.com/clintron/py3k-oursql

You may also need to have the latest version of Cython.