This package is a 'virtual package', which requires MySQL-python (Python 2) or mysqlclient (Python 3) to install. In effect, this means 'pip install mysql' will actually install MySQL-python.
Instead of depending on this package, please depend on the relevant package directly.
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We found that mysql demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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