Is MySQL required for Hot Gym example?

[Tom Tan]

Hi,

I tried to follow the tutorial and run the “one hot gym” example.  Got 
following error when running swarm.py

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pymysql/__init__.py", line 88, in 
Connect
    return Connection(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pymysql/connections.py", line 626, in 
__init__
    self._connect()
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pymysql/connections.py", line 818, in 
_connect
    2003, "Can't connect to MySQL server on %r (%s)" % (self.host, e))
pymysql.err.OperationalError: (2003, "Can't connect to MySQL server on 
'localhost' ([Errno 61] Connection refused)”)


Seems MySQL is required?  If so, any DB scripts to create schema etc?

Regards,
Tom