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diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/mysqldb.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/mysqldb.py index 9f1dd7d8b..744909170 100644 --- a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/mysqldb.py +++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/mysqldb.py @@ -8,10 +8,20 @@ """ .. dialect:: mysql+mysqldb - :name: MySQL-Python + :name: mysqlclient (maintained fork of MySQL-Python) :dbapi: mysqldb :connectstring: mysql+mysqldb://<user>:<password>@<host>[:<port>]/<dbname> - :url: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python + :url: https://pypi.org/project/mysqlclient/ + +Driver Status +------------- + +The mysqlclient DBAPI is a maintained fork of the +`MySQL-Python <http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python>`_ DBAPI +that is no longer maintained. `mysqlclient`_ supports Python 2 and Python 3 +and is very stable. + +.. _mysqlclient: https://github.com/PyMySQL/mysqlclient-python .. _mysqldb_unicode: @@ -21,14 +31,6 @@ Unicode Please see :ref:`mysql_unicode` for current recommendations on unicode handling. -Py3K Support ------------- - -Currently, MySQLdb only runs on Python 2 and development has been stopped. -`mysqlclient`_ is fork of MySQLdb and provides Python 3 support as well -as some bugfixes. - -.. _mysqlclient: https://github.com/PyMySQL/mysqlclient-python Using MySQLdb with Google Cloud SQL ----------------------------------- |