dyork wrote: > "Carsten Haese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This may come as a shock to you, but MySQL is not the only database > > engine on the planet. Your recommendation may apply to MySQL, but it is > > not true for all databases in general. I can name at least two examples > > (Informix and Oracle) of database engines that are supported under > > Python 2.5, and if I were less lazy I could probably find more. > > Of course, no question about it. > > However, the database is currently in MySQL and it's convenient to keep > working with it, given the other apps and other tools I'm using. > > This would be the first time I've been told: don't use that database, the > language doesn't like it. >
Simple fact: mySQLdb is not yet available for Python 2.5. Nobody has said (or even hinted) that "the language doesn't like it." -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
