Kent Boortz MySQL Connector/Python 1.0.5 beta has been released
Aug 07, 2012; 19:59
Kent Boortz
MySQL Connector/Python 1.0.5 beta has been released
Dear MySQL users,
MySQL Connector/Python v1.0.5 is a new version of the pure Python database driver for MySQL. This is the first in a series of beta releases that will introduce users to new features and changes.
This release is feature complete, but as a non-GA release is not recommended for use in production environments. MySQL Connector/Python version 1.0 is compatible with MySQL Server versions 5.5 and greater, but should work with earlier versions (greater than v4.1).
MySQL Connector/Python v1.0.5 (beta) is available for download from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/python/#downloads (Note: not all mirrors may be up to date yet)
A brief summary of changes in MySQL Connector/Python v1.0 is listed below. Please check the ChangeLog file inside the distribution for a more complete list of changes.
Changes in MySQL Connector/Python v1.0.5 ----------------------------------------
This section documents changes and Bug fixes that have been applied in MySQL Connector/Python since the development release v0.3.2.
Functionality Added or Changed:
* Adding support for time values with a fractional seconds part. A new example script microseconds.py was added to show this functionality.
* Refactored the modules connection and protocol and created a new module network. The MySQLProtocol does not keep a reference to the connection object any more and deals only with creating and parsing MySQL packets. Network interaction is now done by the MySQLConnection objects (with the exception of MySQLProtocol.read_text_result()).
* Added MySQLConnection.reconnect() which used to reconnect to the MySQL server. It accepts number of retries and a delay between attempts.
* Added descriptive error codes for both client and server errors in the module errorcode. A new sub-package locales has been added, which currently only support English client error messages.
* Added SQLMode class in the constants module, making it easier to use them.
* Incompatible Change: The MySQLConnection.ping() method raises an InterfaceError when the MySQL server is not available. It can also optinally reconnect and accepts the same arguments as the reconnect() method.
* Incompatible Change: The MySQLConnection.is_connect() method now returns True or False. It can be used to simply check whether a connection is available or not.
* Incompatible Change: MySQLCursor.execute() does not return anything for single statement operations. Sending multiple statements will result in a generator object to be returned by MySQLCursor.execute(). The MySQLCursor.next_resultset() became obsolete and was removed and the MySQLCursor.next_proc_result() method has been renamed to MySQLCursor.proc_results(), which returns a generator object. The MySQLCursor.with_rows property can be used to check if a result could return rows. The multiple_resultset.py example script shows how to go through results produced by sending multiple statements. (Bug #14208326)
* Incompatible Change: The method MySQLConnection.set_charset() has been removed and replaced by MySQLConnection.set_charset_collation() to simplify setting and retrieving character set and collation information. The MySQLConnection properties collation and charset are now read-only. (Bug #14260052)
* Incompatible Change: The MySQLConnection methods unset_client_flag() and set_client_flag() have been removed. Use the set_client_flags() method instead using a sequence. (Bug #14259996)
Bug Fixes:
* Fixed MySQLCursor.executemany() when INSERT statements use the 'ON DUPLICATE KEY'-clause with a function like VALUES(). (Bug #14259954, Bug #65678)
* Fixed cursor.CursorBase attributes description, lastrowid and rowcount to be read-only properties. (Bug #14231160)
* Fixed and refactored mysql.connector.errors module. (Bug #14039339)
* Fixed MySQLCursor.description so column names are Unicode. (Bug #13792575)
* Fixed automatic garbage collection which caused memory usage to grow over time. (Bug #13435186)
* Fixed setting time zone for current MySQL session. (Bug #13395083)
* Fixed handling of errors after authentication for Python v3. (Bug #13364285)
Documentation -------------
The documentation is still being developed, and is included in the distribution under the docs/ folder.
Reporting Bugs --------------
We welcome and appreciate your feedback and Bug reports: http://bugs.mysql.com/
Enjoy!
On behalf of the MySQL Build Team, Kent Boortz
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