Python interface to MySQL-3.2 and beyond
mysqlclient is a fork of MySQL-python

MySQLdb is an interface to the popular MySQL database server for Python.
The design goals are:

- Compliance with Python database API version 2.0
- Thread-safety
- Thread-friendliness (threads will not block each other)
- Compatibility with MySQL-3.23 and later

This module should be mostly compatible with an older interface written by Joe
Skinner and others. However, the older version is a) not thread-friendly, b)
written for MySQL 3.21, c) apparently t actively maintained. No code from that
version is used in MySQLdb. MySQLdb is free software.