Replace MySQL-python library by something else that supports python3

[amaltaro]

As described in pypi:
https://pypi.org/project/MySQL-python/

this third-party library does not support python3.

We need to check whether services depending on it are really using this library. It might be that we can simply drop it instead of adopting another package for mysql interface.

Apparently needed by:

• crabserver
• t0
• wmagent

[cmsbuild]

A new Issue was created by @amaltaro Alan Malta Rodrigues.

@Dr15Jones, @silviodonato, @dpiparo, @smuzaffar, @makortel can you please review it and eventually sign/assign? Thanks.

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[amaltaro]

Feel free to assign it to myself.

[mrodozov]

https://pypi.org/project/PyMySQL ?
I think the question is how close to your existing API calls the new tool can be, minimizing rewriting old calls to new

[amaltaro]

Yes, that might be a good option. But first I need to make sure that our services are really using this package, which I'm not really sure...

[amaltaro]

Moving this issue under the WMCore project: dmwm/WMCore#9805