I know the mismatch between Object Oriented Technology and the Relational Technology, generally here.
But I do not know the mismatch between MySQL and Python, and other tools, not just ORMs, to deal with the issue, missing in the latter article.
Questions:
ORM is the standard solution for making the object-oriented world of Python match the Relational world of MySQL.
There are at least 3 popular ORM components.