Accessing Google Cloud SQL externally from Python
I started playing with Google Cloud SQL recently, hoping to use it to tie together a data collection application I run on a home server with an Google AppEngine interface for querying the data. The problem came when I realized that the only external interface into Cloud SQL is via a JDBC driver, and my program was written entirely in Python. After some toying around, I successfully got the Google Cloud SQL JDBC driver to work from within Python 2.7 under the Python JayDeBeApi module and jpype. I'm documenting the final steps here in case I need them later. YMMV Set up a Google Cloud SQL instance and database. This will also require you to register a project in the developer console, and enable billing if you haven't already. I'm using the temporarily available free trial of Cloud SQL, but you have to have billing associated with the account in case you exceed the free trial quota. On the system you want to connect to Cloud SQL from: Make sure you have a working JV...