Andrew Klychkov

@bmillemathias hi, if you have a wish to update the doc, I'd be happy to review

@rsicart thanks for reminding! It's a great idea to conduct PR/Issue days from time to time. I've added the `help_wanted` label, so anyone who wants to contribute can pick it...

a part of the discussion is in https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.mysql/pull/142

@itcultus thanks for reporting this! As a workaround i would suggest trying the `mysqlclient` connector instead of PyMySQL. Could you please try it and let us know that it helps?

`mysqlclient` is an actively maintained connector (by the same folks who are developing PyMSQL IIRC).

It's just a regular pypi package available for installation via pip https://pypi.org/project/mysqlclient/. So i would remove PyMySQL first (via pip also), then would install mysqlclient and try

https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.mysql/pull/142#issuecomment-819333437 and below explains the result of our investigation

Sounds good, thanks. The essence of the result is that PyMySQL works a bit strange with Python3

@st-rafer hi, thanks for the PR! I have no time to review it this week and will try to do it at the beginning of the next week. For now:...

@hunleyd thanks! Sounds good, will do the same. @st-rafer cool, thanks! In addition to the mentioned part of the source code, you could use https://github.com/ansible/community-docs/blob/main/integration_tests_quick_start_guide.rst.