This package contains a pure-Python MySQL client library. The goal of PyMySQL is to be a drop-in replacement for MySQLdb and work on CPython, PyPy and IronPython.

NOTE: PyMySQL doesn't support low level APIs _mysql provides like data_seek, store_result, and use_result. You should use high level APIs defined in PEP 249. But some APIs like autocommit and ping are supported because PEP 249 doesn't cover their usecase.

• Python -- one of the following:
  • CPython >= 2.6 or >= 3.3
  • PyPy >= 4.0
  • IronPython 2.7
• MySQL Server -- one of the following:
  • MySQL >= 4.1 (tested with only 5.5~)
  • MariaDB >= 5.1

The last stable release is available on PyPI and can be installed with pip:

$ pip install PyMySQL 

Documentation is available online: http://pymysql.readthedocs.io/

For support, please refer to the StackOverflow.

The following examples make use of a simple table

CREATETABLE `users` ( `id`int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `email`varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_bin NOT NULL, `password`varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_bin NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`id`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_bin AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ;

importpymysql.cursors# Connect to the databaseconnection=pymysql.connect(host='localhost', user='user', password='passwd', db='db', charset='utf8mb4', cursorclass=pymysql.cursors.DictCursor) try: withconnection.cursor() ascursor: # Create a new recordsql="INSERT INTO `users` (`email`, `password`) VALUES (%s, %s)"cursor.execute(sql, ('webmaster@python.org', 'very-secret')) # connection is not autocommit by default. So you must commit to save# your changes.connection.commit() withconnection.cursor() ascursor: # Read a single recordsql="SELECT `id`, `password` FROM `users` WHERE `email`=%s"cursor.execute(sql, ('webmaster@python.org',)) result=cursor.fetchone() print(result) finally: connection.close()

This example will print:

{'password': 'very-secret', 'id': 1}

DB-API 2.0: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249

MySQL Reference Manuals: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/

MySQL client/server protocol: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/internals/en/client-server-protocol.html

"Connector" channel in MySQL Community Slack: http://lefred.be/mysql-community-on-slack/

PyMySQL mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pymysql-users

PyMySQL is released under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.