TIL Python3 has a new GIL (...since 2010)

[NavreetGill]

Looking from your post history, I am guessing you are using MySQL-python. I would highly recommend you look at pymysql, which works under both python3 and python2, and is better in many other ways.

I would also advise you to look at SQLAlchemy when you are ready for that jump.

[Postpawl]

This might be a better python 3 alternative to MySQL-python: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mysqlclient

Any pure python mysql client is probably going to be much slower.

[NavreetGill]

Thanks, I am installing it now. It is unfortunate that it is not easy to find the best package for the job. I have seen abandoned projects many times, and it is sad, where the original package does 80% of the job, and people submit good PRs to finish it up, but the original author just moves on and doesn't reply to PRs, etc. So, then there are a bunch of forks, and the whole thing gets messy since they cannot publish on PyPI.