EPFImporter creates table but imports nothing

You can get it to work by altering EPFIngester.py according to:

1. Find function

   def _populateTable(self, tableName, resumeNum=0,
   isIncremental=False, skipKeyViolators=False):
   

2. In the function, within the while loop, find row:

   cur = conn.cursor()
   

3. Under it insert:

   cur.connection.autocommit(True)
   

The altered source should look like:

...
cur = conn.cursor()
cur.connection.autocommit(True)
colVals = unicode(", ".join(stringList), 'utf-8')
....

The EPFImporter was made in 2010. At the time, the latest version of MySQLdb set autocommit to true. The version of MySQLdb you are using is most likely a newer version where autocommit is set to false.