{"categories":[{"label":"Database","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/database/4"},{"label":"Database Engines/Servers","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/database-database-engines-servers"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"MySQL-python provides a Python 2 interface to MySQL databases, implementing the Python Database API specification for executing queries and managing connections.","skillfed_tags":["legacy","python2-only","abandoned"],"use_cases":["Maintaining legacy Python 2 applications that already depend on MySQL-python and cannot be migrated","Running existing codebases frozen at Python 2.7 that interact with MySQL databases","Educational purposes to understand how Python database adapters implement the Database API standard"],"what_it_does":"MySQL-python is a database adapter that lets Python 2 applications connect to and query MySQL databases. It implements the Python Database API version 2.0 standard, meaning code written against it follows a common interface shared with other database drivers. The package is a thin wrapper around the MySQL C client library, providing thread-safe access to MySQL 3.23 through 5.5.\n\nThis package is effectively obsolete. It was last released in 2014 and does not support Python 3. The repository shows minimal activity since 2020. For any new project, modern alternatives are the correct choice.","worth_installing":"No. Do not install for new projects\u2014Python 2 reached end-of-life years ago, and MySQL-python has been abandoned since 2014. If you must maintain legacy Python 2 code already using MySQL-python, keep the existing version pinned. For any new work, use a maintained alternative."},"id":"mysql-python","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/mysql-python","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/mysql-python.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/mysql-python/"},"maintenance":{"status":"abandoned"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2014-01-02","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"copyleft","name":"MySQL-python","python_support":"unspecified","summary":"Python interface to MySQL"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":148447,"position":11033,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"1.2.5"}