MySQLdb vs mysql.connector vs DBUtils.PooledDB

import MySQLdb
import mysql.connector
from DBUtils.PooledDB import PooledDB
from time import time

def pool(lib):
        return PooledDB(lib, host="localhost", user="test", passwd="test", db="test")

def conn(lib):
        return lib.connect(host="localhost", user="test", passwd="test", db="test")

def timeit_pool(steps, pool):
        start = time()
        for a in range(1,steps):
                conn = pool.connection()
                cursor = conn.cursor()
                cursor.execute("Select %s, %s;", ('a',1))
                result = cursor.fetchone()
                cursor.close()
                conn.close()
        return time()-start

def timeit_wo_pool(steps, conn):
        start = time()
        for a in range(1,steps):
                cursor = conn.cursor()
                cursor.execute("Select %s, %s;", ('a',1))
                result = cursor.fetchone()
                cursor.close()
        conn.close()
        return time()-start

steps = 10000

print timeit_pool(steps, pool(MySQLdb)), 'MySQLdb + pool'
print timeit_pool(steps, pool(mysql.connector)), 'mysql.connector + pool'
print timeit_wo_pool(steps, conn(MySQLdb)), 'MySQLdb'
print timeit_wo_pool(steps, conn(mysql.connector)), 'mysql.connector'