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authorINADA Naoki <songofacandy@gmail.com>2015-03-13 13:44:23 +0900
committerINADA Naoki <songofacandy@gmail.com>2015-03-14 05:35:11 +0900
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downloadsqlalchemy-69dadc88e0b95e0fe1936ae09fd7d3e085f1df0a.tar.gz
Add mention about mysqlclient
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-rw-r--r--lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/mysqldb.py6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/mysqldb.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/mysqldb.py
index 0d125a245..b18930b66 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/mysqldb.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/mysqldb.py
@@ -28,8 +28,10 @@ unicode** will include both charset and use_unicode=0::
create_engine("mysql+mysqldb://user:pass@host/dbname?charset=utf8&use_unicode=0")
-As of this writing, MySQLdb only runs on Python 2. It is not known how
-MySQLdb behaves on Python 3 as far as unicode decoding.
+As of this writing, MySQLdb only runs on Python 2 and development has been stopped.
+`mysqlclient`_ is fork of MySQLdb and provides Python 3 support and some bugfixes.
+
+.. _mysqlclient: https://github.com/PyMySQL/mysqlclient-python
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