Changes in MySQL Connector/Python 1.0.6 (2012-08-30, Beta)

Second beta release.

• Functionality Added or Changed

• Bugs Fixed

Functionality Added or Changed

• Changed how MySQL server errors are mapped to Python exceptions. We now use the SQLState (when available) to raise a better error.

  • Incompatibility: some server errors now are raised with a different exception.

  • It is possible to override how errors are raised using the mysql.connector.custom_error_exception() function, defined in the mysql.connector.errors module. This can be useful for certain frameworks to align with other database drivers.

  (WL #6412)

• Changed name and version of distributions to align with other MySQL projects:

  • The version now includes the suffix 'b' for beta and 'a' for alpha followed by a number. This version is used in the source and built distributions. GA versions will have no suffix.

  • The RPM spec files have been updated to create packages whose names are aligned with RPMs from other MySQL projects.

  (WL #6450)

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed version-specific code so Connector/Python works with Python 3.3. (Bug #14524942)

• Fixed MySQLCursorRaw.fetchall() so it does not raise an exception when results are available. (Bug #14517262, Bug #66465)

• Timeout for unit tests has been set to 10 seconds. Test cases can individually adjust it to be higher or lower. (Bug #14487502)

• Fixed installation of version.py on OS X:

  • version.py is now correctly installed on OS X in the mysql.connector package. Previously, it was installed through data_files, and version.py ended up in the system-wide package location of Python, from which it could not be imported.

  • data_files is not used any longer in setup.py and is removed. Extra files like version.py now are copied in the custom Distutils commands.

  (Bug #14483142)

• Fixed test cases in test_mysql_database.py that failed when using YEAR(2) with MySQL 5.6.6 and greater. (Bug #14460680)

• Fixed SSL unit testing for source distributions:

  • The SSL keys and certificates were missing and now are added to the source distribution. Now SSL testing works properly.

  • Additionally for the Windows platform, forward slashes were added to the option file creation so the MySQL server can pick up the needed SSL files.

  (Bug #14402737)