MySQL is set to autocommit by default (you can check with "select @@autocommit", there are probably some other ways to check as well), then it comes to which en

MySQL is set to autocommit by default (you can check with "select @@autocommit", there are probably some other ways to check as well), then it comes to which engine you use, many of them don't support transactions, but some like InnoDB do. So it really all depends. in response to lincolnq below: you are correct, if the engine does support autocommit it is turned on automatically. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/ http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/