johnf wrote: > 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. >
And providing 'built-in' drivers for massively popular databases would prevent that from being true how ? Fuzzyman http://www.voidspace.org.uk/index2.shtml > Johnf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
