Does SQLAlchemy depend on MySQLdb?
26th August 2010
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No. SQLAlchemy can talk to all sorts of different DB-API compliant backends, including MySQL Connector/J (Jython only), MySQL Connector/Python, mysql-python (the MySQLdb module) and OurSQL—plus backends for many other databases. See the full list here:
http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/d...More recent articles
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