MySQL Connector/Python Developer Guide
This chapter contains the public API reference for the Connector/Python C
Extension, also known as the _mysql_connector
Python module.
The _mysql_connector C Extension module can be
used directly without any other code of Connector/Python. One reason to use
this module directly is for performance reasons.
Examples in this reference use ccnx to
represent a connector object as used with the
_mysql_connector C Extension module.
ccnx is an instance of the
_mysql_connector.MySQL() class. It is distinct
from the cnx object used in examples for the
mysql.connector Connector/Python module described in
Chapter 10, Connector/Python API Reference.
cnx is an instance of the object returned by
the connect() method of the
MySQLConnection class.
The C Extension is not part of the pure Python installation. It is an optional module that must be installed using a binary distribution of Connector/Python that includes it, or compiled using a source distribution. See Chapter 4, Connector/Python Installation.