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0 pointsdetaro9y ago0 comments

Can't talk about the specific complaints the author has, but there are a bunch of datetime libraries for python with often intentionally different behaviors. Submitting "fixes" requires the other libraries' authors to see what you want to fix as a defect and not a design decision/feature/to irrelevant to justify breaking changes.

At least that was my impression from trying to find a combination of libraries I like and reading various bug trackers in the process. In the end I pick and choose the pieces that do what I like for each part of the process, luckily the datatypes are mostly compatible or easily adapted.

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oneweekwonder9y ago

What mysql lib would you recommend?

I'm doing a `pip install https://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/Connector-Python/mysql-c... on older centos boxes. Because I found `pip install mysql-connector-python` seems to fail on older boxes.

I also wonder if I should not start to look at SQLAlchemy. Not so much the ORM. But rather the simple DBAPI[0] interface.

I'm already using Postgres FDW to integrate PostGIS into our mysql dbs. So I am going to drag a Postgres python lib around in the near future, any recommendations.

PS: I Believe I just convinced myself, to go invest some time into learning SQLAlchemy.

http://aosabook.org/en/sqlalchemy.html

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