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Asked: 2026-06-10T22:23:47+00:00

I’d like to query a MySQL database using Python, but evidently the MySQLdb package

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I’d like to query a MySQL database using Python, but evidently the MySQLdb package requires a huge toolchain of MySQL stuff to be separately installed.

How can I query a MySQL database using a Python script without installing a bunch of unnecessary MySQL stuff, including conferring MySQL server capability on the client machine?

I don’t love Perl, but it appears that the DBI package allows a Perl script to interface with MySQL without any MySQL stuff external to the package. I’m looking for something similar for Python.

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    You need to find a pure mysql python library. I have seen a couple over the last couple months. A quick google search yoelded pymysql. It has a large following on github. It looks promising. Pymysql is a pure python mysql client.
    https://github.com/petehunt/PyMySQL

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