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Readying first alpha release, but where to install MySQL Connector/Python?

November 9th, 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments

I’m currently planning a first ‘alpha’ release of MySQL Connector/Python, but I’m now doubting whether the naming and installation of the module is actually good.

Currently, the module lives, in site-packages/mysql/connector/, or import mysql.connector. Since this is an official MySQL, sorry, Sun Microsystems, project, I thought that the ‘parent’ module mysql would be good enough.

But is it? Would it break your modules with the same name?

The idea was to make more tools for Python and have them all under the mysql module, but maybe we need a smarter name for this? Maybe sunmysql/connector?

Comments are welcome! You can also email me directly (if you can figure out the cryptic anti-spam): geert_dot_vanderkelen_APETAIL_sun_dot_com.

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  1. LenZ
    November 9th, 2009 at 16:42 | #1
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    Hi Geert! I think using the "mysql" name space is the appropriate thing to do. In the end, it's the name of the product you want to connect to, the name of the company behind it probably does not matter :)

  2. Bryan Alsdorf
    November 9th, 2009 at 23:32 | #2
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    I think your current module is good. I need to check this project out, I keep reading about it but haven't had a chance to use it yet.

    I am slowly becoming a python snob, wish I had written Eventum in it…

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