John Nagle wrote: > Jan Dries wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> I'm also looking for a MySQLdb binary for windows. This is holding me >>> from upgrading from Python 2.4 to Python 2.5 ! >>> >> >> If you search the Help Forum of the MySQLdb project on SourceForge, you >> will find a couple of people who have successfully built MySQLdb on >> Windows for 2.5, and are willing to share their installers. >> That's how I got my binaries. >> >> Regards, >> Jan > > Yes, see > > http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1571110&forum_id=70461 > > for an untested version created by a World of Warcraft guild: > > http://www.guildmanus.com/uploaded/MySQL-python.exe-1.2.2b2.win32-py2.5.exe > > This, apparently, is the extent of current Python support for MySQL. > Want to install that executable, as root, on your production machines? > > This is embarassing for the Python community. Perl and PHP come > with MySQL support built in. Python is out to lunch on this. > > John Nagle > Animats I couldn't disagree more. That fact that no Database drivers are built-in makes Python stronger - allowing Python to access any Data Engine that supports DBI 2.0. Of course I'm not including pickle in my assessment.
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