MySQL Python API •For online information about Perl DBI, visit the DBI website, http://dbi.perl.org/. That site hosts a general DBI mailing list. •For printed information, the official DBI book is  Programming the Perl DBI  (Alligator Descartes and Tim Bunce, O’Reilly & Associates, 2000). Information about the book is available at the DBI website, http:// dbi.perl.org/. 29.10 MySQL Python API 29.11 MySQL Ruby APIs 29.11.1 The MySQL/Ruby API 29.11.2 The Ruby/MySQL API 29.13 MySQL Eiffel Wrapper 29.12 MySQL Tcl API MySQLtcl  is a simple API for accessing a MySQL database server from the Tcl programming language. It can be found at http://www.xdobry.de/mysqltcl/. Eiffel MySQL is an interface to the MySQL database server using the Eiffel programming language, written by Michael Ravits. It can be found at http://efsa.sourceforge.net/archive/ravits/mysql.htm. For information on installing the module, and the functions exposed, see Ruby/MySQL. The Ruby/MySQL module provides access to MySQL databases using Ruby through a native driver interface using the MySQL network protocol. For information on installing the module, and the functions exposed, see MySQL/Ruby. For background and syntax information about the Ruby language, see Ruby Programming Language. The MySQL/Ruby module provides access to MySQL databases using Ruby through  libmysqlclient . •The MySQL/Ruby API is based on the  libmysqlclient  API library. For information on installing and using the MySQL/Ruby API, see Section 29.11.1, “The MySQL/Ruby API” . •The Ruby/MySQL API is written to use the native MySQL network protocol (a native driver). For information on installing and using the Ruby/MySQL API, see Section 29.11.2, “The Ruby/MySQL API” . Two APIs are available for Ruby programmers developing MySQL applications: The new MySQL Connector/Python component provides an interface to the same Python API, and is built into the MySQL Server and supported by Oracle. See MySQL Connector/Python Developer Guide for details on the Connector, as well as coding guidelines for Python applications and sample Python code. MySQLdb  is a third-party driver that provides MySQL support for Python, compliant with the Python DB API version 2.0. It can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/. 5220