On 11/17/2010 7:21 PM, Tim Harig wrote: > On 2010-11-18, dave <davidrey...@gmail.com> wrote: >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/ >> >> Using this package, WITHOUT having MySQL installed on my Mac OS X, how >> can I use python to connect to a remote MySQL server? >> >> All of the tutorials mention having to download MySQL! > > You don't have to install all of MySQL, just the client libraries. I would > assume that almost every MySQL connector uses these libraries; but, you > might see if the MySQL-ODBC connector will work without them. It is a long > shot. Your last option would be to recreate your own connector without > using the MySQL client libraries. I am not really sure what the purpose of > reinventing this wheel would be.
I believe that the coming trend is to implement the MySQL client protocol directly in Python, thereby obviating the need for any MySQL client installation on the machine hosting the Python code. The pymysql project at http://code.google.com/p/pymysql/ is one such solution, aimed at satisfying Python 3 users without the need to port existing low-level client code. As an irrelevance might I also add that the trend for built-in extension modules is to require a reference implementation in Python to ease the task of those wishing to port the language and get as much functionality (albeit at some performance in cost) available as early in the porting cycle as possible. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 PyCon 2011 Atlanta March 9-17 http://us.pycon.org/ See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
