Bug #84389 Add read_default_file argument for connect()

• Submitted: 3 Jan 2017 12:26
• Modified: 13 Aug 2019 21:46
• Reporter: Daniël van Eeden (OCA)
• Status: Closed
• Category: Connector / Python
• Severity: S4 (Feature request)
• Version: 2.1
• OS: Any
• CPU Architecture: Any

[3 Jan 2017 12:26] Daniël van Eeden

Description:
When porting code from MySQLdb to mysql.connector:
"AttributeError: Unsupported argument 'read_default_file'"

The reason was this:
c = mysql.connector.connect(read_default_file='foo.cnf')

How to repeat:
See description

Suggested fix:
Let read_default_file be an alias for option_files to make mysql.connector more compatible with MySQLdb.

[5 Jan 2017 5:58] MySQL Verification Team

Hello Daniël,

Thank you for the report and feature request!

Thanks,
Umesh

[13 Aug 2019 21:46] Philip Olson

Posted by developer:
 
Fixed as of the upcoming MySQL Connector/Python 8.0.18 release, and here's the changelog entry:

Let read_default_file be an alias for option_files to make mysql.connector
more compatible with MySQLdb.

Thank you for the bug report.