Thanks for your advice. In fact subsquent to posting I started using ... conn.autocommit = False
... as a synonm for ... conn.begin() ... and as you say that does the job. (Sorry i should have said it's not practicable to turn off autocommit always [or rather it may be but I'm not about to shake the boat to that extent just now ;-] As to what I was reading yes it's here ... http://www.devshed.com/index2.php?option=content&task=view&id=210&pop=1&page=0&hide_js=1 ... or more succinctly ... http://tinyurl.com/s6yd2 ... page down to ... "connection.begin() - start a transaction" ... that article refers to version 0.92 of MySQLdb so clearly it was either wrong then or for some weird reason the method has been dropped. thanks again. richard. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
