There are actually several MySQL drivers and at least 2 worth using on Python2 and Python3: MySQL driver 1: http://pythonhosted.org/oursql/ http://pythonhosted

There are actually several MySQL drivers and at least 2 worth using on Python2 and Python3: MySQL driver 1: http://pythonhosted.org/oursql/ http://pythonhosted.org/oursql/ MySQL driver 2: https://github.com/PyMySQL/PyMySQL https://github.com/PyMySQL/PyMySQL Both are well supported drivers. Much nicer to use than the old Python2 only MySQL-python driver, imo.