Why not submit fixes for the existing library instead?
At least that was my impression from trying to find a combination of libraries I like and reading various bug trackers in the process. In the end I pick and choose the pieces that do what I like for each part of the process, luckily the datatypes are mostly compatible or easily adapted.
I'm doing a `pip install https://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/Connector-Python/mysql-c... on older centos boxes. Because I found `pip install mysql-connector-python` seems to fail on older boxes.
I also wonder if I should not start to look at SQLAlchemy. Not so much the ORM. But rather the simple DBAPI[0] interface.
I'm already using Postgres FDW to integrate PostGIS into our mysql dbs. So I am going to drag a Postgres python lib around in the near future, any recommendations.
PS: I Believe I just convinced myself, to go invest some time into learning SQLAlchemy.