Re: ANN: PyMySQL 0.3

On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 12:48 AM, Andy <selforganized@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Pete.
>
> I'm definitely interested in using PyMySQL for production.
>
> I'm interested in running Django in an async mode using gevent (http://
> www.gevent.org/). gevent provides a money patch that turns any Python
> code into non-blocking. The problem is that MySQLdb is written in C,
> so it'd still block, which would kinda defeat the whole purpose of
> having an async Django app if every database access is blocking.

Uh, no.

MySQLdb releases the GIL on any blocking call, so other threads can run.

Django is *not* asynchronous. It's threaded.
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