MySQL for Python MySQLdb-SVN

"import" creates GIL overhead every time it is run. For threaded MySQLdb apps,
it doesn't make sense to pay that cost for every execute(), so lets move some
of these imports.

http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSpeed/PerformanceTips#ImportStatementOverhead

Bug #1774101 was caused by only copying things that had integer keys. We really
want to copy all key/value pairs and specially handle the int->list case.

MySQLdb-1.2.3c1

1.2.3 release candidate 1

Reimplement MySQL->Python type conversion in C; much simpler and easier to deal with now. Hey, all my tests pass, so I guess that means I need to write some more tests.

By exposing connection on result, decoders can be simplified: Only the field object is needed. Turned on leak testing and found a leak writing BLOBs. removed one of the old stubs in Cursor.

figleaf revealed that the INSERT_VALUES regex never matched. Added a test for this, and fixed the regex (forgot to add group anchors)

Cursor MixIns: DEAD. More of the new type conversion scheme exposed. Two tests failing because encoding hasn't been finished yet.

MySQLdb-1.2.3b2