On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 09:32:45AM -0400, Steve Holden wrote regarding Re: adodb with mysql - connection string syntax for filepath: > > Mridula Ramesh wrote: > > Hi. Firstly, thank you both very much for the response! > > > > Cliff, I did some more reading up about it after you corrected me re > > MySQL not being a _language_ but another means of storing data (would > > you believe NONE of the connection tutorials actually said that?!) > > Anyway, now I have MySQL on my machine, and it's installed - if I say > > "import MySQLdb" in python prompt, it does that, but I can't see any exe > > in the program's folder itself: does that mean tables can only be > > created by code? *puzzled* > > > > Steve, thank you too, I looked up the link you had given, but I do not > > yet know which part of that site may help me... And I am now going to > > struggle with Dive Into Python before attempting much else! > > > > This is a nice, helpful mailing group! > > > We try, though not everyone appreciates us :-) > > You may find > > http://www.connectionstrings.com/ > > more helpful. > > regard > Steve
For non-programmatic (non-python) access, you might also look into the "MySQL GUI Tools" package, freely downloadable from mysql.com. Cheers, Cliff -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
