Merge pull request GoogleCloudPlatform#1170 from andrewsg/no-local-mysqldb

Enable PyMySQL as an option for local development.

Author: andrewsg

appengine/standard/django/mysite/settings.py

@@ -92,6 +92,16 @@
 # Database
 # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/settings/#databases
 
+# Check to see if MySQLdb is available; if not, have pymysql masquerade as
+# MySQLdb. This is a convenience feature for developers who cannot install
+# MySQLdb locally; when running in production on Google App Engine Standard
+# Environment, MySQLdb will be used.
+try:
+ import MySQLdb # noqa: F401
+except ImportError:
+ import pymysql
+ pymysql.install_as_MySQLdb()
+
 # [START db_setup]
 if os.getenv('SERVER_SOFTWARE', '').startswith('Google App Engine'):
  # Running on production App Engine, so connect to Google Cloud SQL using

appengine/standard/django/requirements.txt

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-MySQL-python==1.2.5
+PyMySQL==0.7.11
 Django==1.11.6