FOSDEM: 'Connecting MySQL and Python', handout & wrap-up

Apparently, my talk at FOSDEM 2010 about Connecting MySQL and Python was the only one about Python? There should be more, or?

I have a hand-out ready in PDF. The slides are not usable without my chatter. It contains a few examples and links. Any comments, corrections, criticism.. are welcome!

The longer version of this talk will be given at the O’Reilly MySQL Conference&Expo 2010 in Santa Clara, California (USA).

Comments

jay
I was in the audience at Fosdem2010. I enjoyed your talk, thanks. Nice to get a clear overview of the options we have to connect Python and MySQL.

I have a question which came to me when i was already home. You didn't really speak about performance if i recall correctly. How does MySQL Connector/Python stack up to MySQLdb preformance-wise? Have you run any tests?
Thanks in advance.
Geert JM Vanderkelen
@Jay: Thank you for your kind words! I tried the 'Zen' approach, and this was my first try in this format.

About your question, it was also raised during the talk. MySQL Connector/Python will have a performance penalty, but I'm hopeful to reduce it and make it as good as the interfaces using libmysqlclient.

There was a similar question on Launchpad, which I answered yesterday.

Hope this helps! Any tips to make the Python code faster without resorting to C, are welcome.
jay
oh, scusi, didn't catch that

if time allows, i'll check out the code, though i am far from python guru status