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Does SQLAlchemy depend on MySQLdb?

26th August 2010

My answer to Does SQLAlchemy depend on MySQLdb? on Quora

No. SQLAlchemy can talk to all sorts of different DB-API compliant backends, including MySQL Connector/J (Jython only), MySQL Connector/Python, mysql-python (the MySQLdb module) and OurSQL—plus backends for many other databases. See the full list here:

http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/d...