REGR: fix read_sql delegation for queries on MySQL/pymysql (pandas-de…

…v#25024)
Pingviinituutti · Feb 28, 2019 · 0628efa · 0628efa
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diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.1.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.1.rst
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ Fixed Regressions
 
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.itertuples` with ``records`` orient raising an ``AttributeError`` when the ``DataFrame`` contained more than 255 columns (:issue:`24939`)
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.itertuples` orient converting integer column names to strings prepended with an underscore (:issue:`24940`)
+- Fixed regression in :func:`read_sql` when passing certain queries with MySQL/pymysql (:issue:`24988`).
 - Fixed regression in :class:`Index.intersection` incorrectly sorting the values by default (:issue:`24959`).
 - Fixed regression in :func:`merge` when merging an empty ``DataFrame`` with multiple timezone-aware columns on one of the timezone-aware columns (:issue:`25014`).
 

diff --git a/pandas/io/sql.py b/pandas/io/sql.py
@@ -381,7 +381,8 @@ def read_sql(sql, con, index_col=None, coerce_float=True, params=None,
 
     try:
         _is_table_name = pandas_sql.has_table(sql)
-    except (ImportError, AttributeError):
+    except Exception:
+        # using generic exception to catch errors from sql drivers (GH24988)
         _is_table_name = False
 
     if _is_table_name: