(In reply to Maximilian Meister from comment #24) > thorsten, can you check which version of PyMySQL is installed? the > OperationalError should get imported here: > https://github.com/PyMySQL/PyMySQL/blob/master/pymysql/connections.py#L25 > > if that doesn't work maybe we need to import the err.py explicitly... but i > am no python expert, to me it looks like it should be loaded already We have 0.7.11, the newest is 0.8, and it looks like this got added to 0.8. I will test with 0.8 now.