MySQL Fabric was officially introduced during Tomas his keynote at MySQL Connect 2013. MySQL Fabric will help you managing lots of MySQL server supporting both high-availability and sharding. Just like Connector/J, MySQL Connector/Python v1.1.1 Alpha has support for MySQL Fabric on MySQL Labs. Note that the MySQL Fabric as well as support for it in Connector/Python is Alpha. When you download MySQL Connector/Python from MySQL Labs, you will also see a ZIP archive containing the MySQL Utilities documentation as PDF.

Connector/Python v1.1.1 is available for testing. It’s the second of a series of alpha releases which will bring some new features. Check out the Change History if you want to keep up with what is being added and changed.

A few weeks ago we released MySQL Connector/Python v1.0.12. Bugs were fixed, and LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE should now work correctly. The announcement can be read on the MySQL forums. Some useful links: Documentation: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-python/en/index.html Release Notes: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/connector-python/en/index.html Downloads: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/python/#downloads Feedback: http://bugs.mysql.com Forum: http://forums.mysql.com/list.php?50

Finally, Connector/Python v1.1.0 is out. It’s the first of a series of alpha releases which will bring some new features. Check out the Change History if you want to keep up with what is being added and changed. Notable changes for v1.1.0: Connector/Python v1.0 was known to work with Python v2.4 and 2.5. We now break compatibility with these older Python versions. MySQL Prepared Statements are supported using cursor.MySQLCursorPrepared. You can find out whether there is an ongoing transaction by checking MySQLConnection object’s property in_transaction.

Installing Python’s gevent package can be a bit challanging. This blog post explains how to install it on OSX v10.8 or later without using something like ‘MacPorts’.