Re: [RFC] Python 3 and MySQL

Aside from the technical issues, there are the licensing issues. The Django community strongly prefers BSD-style licensing and both mysqldb and MySQL Connector/Python use GPL licenses. For an e-mail thread which addresses these GPL issues, see https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/django-develo

Re: Recommending a Python 3-compatible MySQL connector

I want to follow up on the issue of a Python 3 connector for MySQL. Oracle has developed an open source Python driver for MySQL : - PEP 249-compliant - pure Python - supports Python 3 - very simple installation: pip install