MySQL backend for Django based on the PyMySQL database adapter
BSD-3-CLAUSE License
This is a Django database backend for MySQL, using the PyMySQL database adapter. It is intended to be a drop-in replacement for the built-in MySQLdb backend, and leverages quite a bit of its code.
It is currently experimental, and has only been tested against Django trunk (1.4-pre-alpha), and Vinay Sajip's Py3k branch on BitBucket (https://bitbucket.org/vinay.sajip/django). At the moment, it won't work with Django 1.3, as it uses Aymeric Augustin's timezone-aware datetime patch.
Clone and install into your site-packages directory:
$ git clone https://github.com/clelland/django-mysql-pymysql
$ cd django-mysql-pymysql
$ python setup.py install
Edit your settings file:
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'mysql_pymysql',
'HOST': ...,
'USER': ...,
'PASSWORD': ...,
}
}
You're done.