With Python you would normally use MySQL Connector/Python or the older MySQLdb to connect from Python to MySQL, but there are more options.
There are also multiple Python implementations: CPython (the main implementation), PyPy, Jython and IronPython. PyPy tries to be faster than CPython by using a Just-in-Time compiler. Jython runs on the JVM and IronPython runs on the .NET CLR.
Connector/Python by default (Without the C Extension) is a pure Python implementation and can work with most if not all implementations. And for MySQLdb there is a drop-in replacement called PyMySQL, which is a pure python implementation.
So there are many options …
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