do not merge: can we remove this ugly code?

[methane]

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Codecov Report

Merging #512 (4e74271) into main (dee7d88) will decrease coverage by 0.05%. The diff coverage is n/a.

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##             main     #512      +/-   ##
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- Coverage   85.79%   85.73%   -0.06%     
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  Files           6        6              
  Lines         542      561      +19     
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+ Hits          465      481      +16     
- Misses         77       80       +3     

Impacted Files	Coverage Δ
MySQLdb/connections.py	87.30% <ø> (+0.27%)	:arrow_up:
MySQLdb/__init__.py	84.37% <0.00%> (-0.63%)	:arrow_down:

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