Support `autocommit=True` for constructor argument.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/MySQLdb/connections.py b/MySQLdb/connections.py
index 6bc1613..aeac731 100644
--- a/MySQLdb/connections.py
+++ b/MySQLdb/connections.py
@@ -139,6 +139,9 @@ class Connection(_mysql.connection):
         local_infile
           integer, non-zero enables LOAD LOCAL INFILE; zero disables
 
+        autocommit
+          If True, autocommit is enabled.
+
         There are a number of undocumented, non-standard methods. See the
         documentation for the MySQL C API for some hints on what they do.
 
@@ -224,7 +227,7 @@ class Connection(_mysql.connection):
         self.encoders[types.StringType] = string_literal
         self.encoders[types.UnicodeType] = unicode_literal
         self._transactional = self.server_capabilities & CLIENT.TRANSACTIONS
-        if self._transactional:
+        if self._transactional and not kwargs2.pop('autocommit', False):
             # PEP-249 requires autocommit to be initially off
             self.autocommit(False)
         self.messages = []