Automatic reconnect in MySQL Connector/Python?

There have been some request to have some reconnect possibilities in Connector/Python. I’m wondering now whether there should be some automatic reconnect on certain errors within the database driver.

My personal feeling is to have no automatic reconnect within Connector/Python and the programmer has to come up with retrying transactions herself.

For example:

	cnx.disconnect() # For testing..
	tries = 2
	while tries > 0:
		tries -= 1
		try:
			cursor.execute("INSERT INTO t1 (c1) VALUES ('ham')")
			cnx.commit()
		except mysql.connector.InterfaceError:
			if tries == 0:
				print "Failed inserting data after retrying"
				break
			else:
				print "Reconnecting.."
				cnx.reconnect()
		else:
			break

The above mimics how you would handle transactions and trying them reconnecting. I have ideas how to get this into Connector/Python, but it would not really fit PEP-249.

Would the above use case of reconnecting be enough?