Had a problem using SQLAlchemy in Python 3.5, as MySqlDB is not in Python 3.x.
The solution is to specify pymysql in the connection string. E.g.
mysql+pymysql://user:password@localhost/database
To set the user, I went to the users and priveleges page of mysqlworkbench. Will I be able to use Mysql workbench for my Linode server?
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