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> 
> This sounds like something we could fix completely by dropping the
> use of the offending library. I know there was a lot of work done
> to get pymysql support in place. It seems like we can finish that by
> removing support for the old library and redirecting mysql://
> connections to use pymysql.
> 
> Doug
> 

I think that may be ideal. If there are known issues with the library,
and we have a different and well tested alternative that we know works,
it's probably easier all around to just redirect internally to use
pymysql.

The one thing I don't know is if there are any valid reasons for someone
wanting to use mysql over pymysql.