- Added an optional C extension to speed up the sql layer by

  reimplementing the highest impact functions.
  The actual speedups will depend heavily on your DBAPI and
  the mix of datatypes used in your tables, and can vary from
  a 50% improvement to more than 200%. It also provides a modest
  (~20%) indirect improvement to ORM speed for large queries.
  Note that it is *not* built/installed by default.
  See README for installation instructions.

- The most common result processors conversion function were
  moved to the new "processors" module.  Dialect authors are
  encouraged to use those functions whenever they correspond
  to their needs instead of implementing custom ones.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/mysqldb.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/mysqldb.py
index c07ed8713..8cfd5930f 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/mysqldb.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/mysqldb.py
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ from sqlalchemy.dialects.mysql.base import (DECIMAL, MySQLDialect, MySQLExecutio
 from sqlalchemy.engine import base as engine_base, default
 from sqlalchemy.sql import operators as sql_operators
 from sqlalchemy import exc, log, schema, sql, types as sqltypes, util
+from sqlalchemy import processors
 
 class MySQL_mysqldbExecutionContext(MySQLExecutionContext):
     
@@ -51,12 +52,7 @@ class _DecimalType(_NumericType):
     def result_processor(self, dialect, coltype):
         if self.asdecimal:
             return None
-        def process(value):
-            if value is not None:
-                return float(value)
-            else:
-                return value
-        return process
+        return processors.to_float
 
 
 class _MySQLdbNumeric(_DecimalType, NUMERIC):