Today we released MySQL Connector/Python v1.0.9. Release notes can be found in the MySQL Developver Zone.
Connector/Python v1.0.9 contains some important fixes, especially for the Windows platform. It also comes with a new connection argument called force_ipv6, and can be used to force IPv6 when an address resolves to both IPv4 and v6. Also, RPM packages have been made available in addition to the TAR/ZIP and MSI packages.
Please use the MySQL Bugs website to report any problem.
Some useful links:
Enjoy!
Today, during MySQL Connect 2012 keynote, the General Availability of MySQL Connector/Python 1.0 was announced! This is the first GA release of Oracle’s pure Python database driver for MySQL.
MySQL Connector/Python v1.0 works with MySQL 5.5 and 5.6, but older versions of the MySQL servers are known to work. For Python, version v2.6, v2.7 and v3.1 and greater are officially supported. Python v2.4/2.5 are know to work as well.
As always, we welcome your feedback and questions through our bug system or using the MySQL Python forum.
Some useful links:
Enjoy!
Love Python? Dig MySQL? Want to meet Oracle’s MySQL Python Experts?
Come and join us at the MySQL Connect 2012 conference in San Fransisco next week, 29/30 September. My colleague Chuck and I are both giving 3 sessions in which we discuss MySQL Utilities and Connector/Python.
Overview of our session:
See you there!
We released the second beta of MySQL Connector/Python v1.0. You can download v1.0.6 from the MySQL website and the change history can be found in the online manual.
Usually, beta releases do not have big changes, but we had to push some code which did not make the previous one and it really had to go into v1.0. The exceptions raised by Connector/Python are now mapped against the ‘SQLState’ found in the MySQL server errors. This makes it much easier to maintain and clearer which exception can be expected. It is, however, possible to override how errors are raised using the custom_error_exception() function of the errors module.
We are also preparing our connector to support Python v3.3 which has now a release candidate out. Maintaining compatibility between minor Python v2 releases is a chore; keeping up with Python v3.x changes ain’t easy either.
This beta comes with a MSI distribution for Python v2.7. This hopefully makes it easier for Windows users to install Connector/Python since no shell has to be opened.
Some useful links:
Enjoy!
Yesterday we announced the availability of MySQL Connector/Python v1.0.5 beta. Today I’ve made it available on PyPI so it can be easily installed. Note that I did remove the old development release and when you upgrade or try v1.0.5, you should check the ChangeLog.
shell> pip install mysql-connector-python
For those wondering why the name includes ‘python’: it’s just to align it with other MySQL connectors and to keep the name consistent with other distribution types.
We welcome and appreciate feedback and comments for this first beta release through the forum and the MySQL Bugs database.
MySQL Connector/Python v1.0.5 beta is now available for download from the MySQL website. This version is feature complete and we welcome and appreciate feedback and bug reports.
We’re also interested in hearing your feedback for future enhancements. Let us know how you’re using the connector too, especially if you are using it with Django, SQLAlchemy and similar Python technologies.
A few things have changed since the last development releases and we hope the manual shipping with the Connector/Python distribution (and also available online soon) will help you get up to speed.
Here are a few important changes that might be incompatible with current scripts using the now obsolete development releases v0.3.2 and earlier:
- MySQLCursor.execute() returns None. When multiple statements are send, it will return a generator object.
- MySQLConnection.ping() raises and exception. The is_connected() method will return True or False.
- The following methods of MySQLConnection changed: set_charset() replaced by set_charset_collation(); unset_client_flag() and set_client_flag() are removed, use set_client_flags() instead.
There have been quite a few changes and bug fixes. I recommend checking the ChangeLog file in the distribution of MySQL Connector/Python, and, once available, also the change log in the MySQL manual.
You can download Connector/Python 1.0.5-beta at:
If you’d like to ask questions or seek advice in using the connector, check out the following MySQL forum:
Today we registered MySQL Connector/Python with the Python Package Index (PyPI). It makes installing your favorite connector even easier (provided you first install setuptools or pip):
shell> easy_install mysql-connector
shell> pip install mysql-connector
Please report problems either using Launchpad or MySQL Bugs website.
In addition to reporting MySQL Connector/Python bugs on Launchpad, it is now also possible to enter them using http://bugs.mysql.com.
After more than 6 years doing MySQL Support for MySQL AB, Sun Microsystems, and Oracle, it’s time for a change. Time to get back to development!
As of November 2011 I’ll be working full-time on MySQL Connector/Python and other goodies within the MySQL development team at Oracle. Before, this was more or less a pet project done after working hours. However, with the birth of our son Tomas more than a year ago, I’ve been slacking and family got priority.
The idea is to make MySQL Connector/Python the best choice for connecting to MySQL from within your Python code. We still got a long road ahead of us, but I’m confident that we are on the right track.
This is a placeholder for the actual post: VirtualBox: give Host-Only access to internet. The post deserved two titles.
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