This SO question is now more than two years old. MySQL is an incredibly popular database engine, Python is an incredibly popular programming language, and Python 3 has been officially released two years ago, and was available even before that.

What's more, the whole mysqldb module is just a layer translating Python's db-api to MySQL's API. It's not that big of a library.

I must be missing something here. How come almost^* nobody in the entire open source community has spent the (I'm guessing) two weeks it takes to port this lib?

• Is Python 3 that unpopular?
• Is the combination of python and mysql not as common as I assume?
• Or maybe it's just a lot harder to port mysqldb than I assume?

Anyone know the inside story on this?

^{* Now I see that this guy has done it, which takes some of the wind out of my question, but it still seems to little and too late to make sense.}