If you are forced to use the old passwords (bah!) when using MySQL 5.6, and using MySQLdb with SQLAlchemy, you'll have to add the --skip-secure-auth to an option file and use URL:
from sqlalchemy.engine.url import URL
..
dialect_options = {
'read_default_file': '/path/to/your/mysql.cnf',
}
engine = create_engine(URL(
'mysql',
username='..', password='..',
host='..', database='..',
query=dialect_options
))
The mysql.cnf would contain:
[client]
skip-secure-auth
For Pyramid, you can do the following. Add a line in your configuration ini-file that holds the connection arguments:
sqlalchemy.url = mysql://scott:tiger@localhost/test
sqlalchemy.connect_args = { 'read_default_file': '/path/to/foo' }
Now you need to change a bit the way the settings are read and used. In the file that launches your Pyramic app, do the following:
def main(global_config, **settings):
try:
settings['sqlalchemy.connect_args'] = eval(settings['sqlalchemy.connect_args'])
except KeyError:
settings['sqlalchemy.connect_args'] = {}
engine = engine_from_config(settings, 'sqlalchemy.')
# rest of code..
The trick is to evaluate the string in the ini file which contains a dictionary with the extra options for the SQLAlchemy dialect.