#25111: Tutorial for 1.8 breaks with recommended mysql settings
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Reporter: JorisBenschop | Owner: nobody
Type: Cleanup/optimization | Status: new
Component: Documentation | Version: 1.8
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Easy pickings: 1 | UI/UX: 0
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The current tutorial mentions it is optimized for python 3.2. However, on
page 1 it recommends using "django.db.backends.mysql" to interact with
mysql. This yields an error because this backend loads the MySQLdb module
which does not exist for python 3.2. Considering this is page 1 of the
basic tutorial such an error should not happen.
Possible solution would be change the docs to specify that django has a
dependncy on mysql.connector.python, and suggest the appropriate backend.
I know this connector is external, but so is MySQLdb.
Personally i would recommend to alter the code that runs "import MySQLdb"
to include an exception that checks if python version is > 3 and return a
message asking the user to install the correct module. Asking to install
MySQLdb from python3 users is confusing.
Apologies if this is a diplicate
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