Re: trouble installing MySQLdb (cygwin) + Bonus question

2011-01-26 Thread John Nagle
On 1/25/2011 3:51 PM, Matthew Roth wrote: On Jan 25, 6:20 pm, David Robinow wrote: On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Matthew Roth wrote: On Jan 25, 9:34 pm, John Nagle wrote: ... You can install a MySQL server under Windows, and talk to the server from the Cygwin environment. That's a

Re: trouble installing MySQLdb (cygwin) + Bonus question

2011-01-25 Thread Matthew Roth
On Jan 25, 6:20 pm, David Robinow wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Matthew Roth wrote: > > On Jan 25, 9:34 pm, John Nagle wrote: > ... > >>     You can install a MySQL server under Windows, and talk to the server > >> from the Cygwin environment.  That's a useful way to test. > > >>    

Re: trouble installing MySQLdb (cygwin) + Bonus question

2011-01-25 Thread David Robinow
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Matthew Roth wrote: > On Jan 25, 9:34 pm, John Nagle wrote: ... >>     You can install a MySQL server under Windows, and talk to the server >> from the Cygwin environment.  That's a useful way to test. >> >>                                         John Nagle > > R

Re: trouble installing MySQLdb (cygwin) + Bonus question

2011-01-25 Thread Matthew Roth
On Jan 25, 9:34 pm, John Nagle wrote: > On 1/25/2011 7:05 AM, Matthew Roth wrote: > > > On Jan 25, 4:30 am, Dennis Lee Bieber  wrote: > >> On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:25:09 -0800 (PST), Matthew Roth > >>  declaimed the following in > >> gmane.comp.python.general: > >>          Second -- MySQL is a ser

Re: trouble installing MySQLdb (cygwin) + Bonus question

2011-01-25 Thread John Nagle
On 1/25/2011 7:05 AM, Matthew Roth wrote: On Jan 25, 4:30 am, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:25:09 -0800 (PST), Matthew Roth declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: Second -- MySQL is a server model DBMS; it doesn't have to be on the local machine.

Re: trouble installing MySQLdb (cygwin) + Bonus question

2011-01-25 Thread Matthew Roth
Thank you. I appreciate you explanation and tolerance of my ignorance. However unfortunate, this still does not solve my major issue. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: trouble installing MySQLdb (cygwin) + Bonus question

2011-01-25 Thread Nitin Pawar
Nothing againest mysqlDB but I had tried using it sometimes and found it little difficult to use when you left the connections open idle for sometime . I had used PySQLPool then to solve my issues. Give it a try, I would recommend it. Thanks, nitin On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Matthew Roth

Re: trouble installing MySQLdb (cygwin) + Bonus question

2011-01-25 Thread Matthew Roth
On Jan 25, 4:30 am, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:25:09 -0800 (PST), Matthew Roth > declaimed the following in > gmane.comp.python.general: > > > > > I've explored various avenues all day to no avail. Can anyone offer a > > solution or a direction to work towards. One avenue w

trouble installing MySQLdb (cygwin) + Bonus question

2011-01-24 Thread Matthew Roth
Hi, I'm a python newbie. By newbie I mean two days ago. It was suggested to me that I work with python. Unfortunately at work I must run this on a windows machiene. However, I am having difficultly installing MySQLdb. First is it even possible under my current environment? I am using python(2.6.5