Django MySQL

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Django-MySQL is a non-inventively named package that helps you use some MySQL/MariaDB-specific features in the world of Django.

What kind of features?

Here's a short list of what's inside:

• QuerySet extensions - 'smart' iteration, approx_count for quick estimates of count(), quick pt-visual-explain of the underlying query
• Handler - quicker reads using MySQL's built-in NoSQL API
• Status variable inspection and utility methods
• User locks - use MySQL as a locking server between your servers

To see them all, check out the exposition at http://django-mysql.readthedocs.org/en/latest/exposition.html .

Requirements

Tested with:

• Python: 2.7, 3.3, 3.4
• Django: 1.7, 1.8 RC
• MySQL: 5.5, 5.6 / MariaDB: 5.5, 10.0, 10.1
• mysqlclient: 1.3.5 (Python 3 compatible version of MySQL-python)

Any combination of these should be good, and also MySQL-python should work since it's just an older version of mysqlclient.