can't connect

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mysql  4.0.12 that comes with osx 10.2
MySQLdb 0.9.2
Python 2.2 (#1, 10/24/02, 16:10:52) 
[GCC Apple cpp-precomp 6.14] on darwin

>>> Import MySQLdb
>>> MySQLdb.connect()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/MySQLdb/__init__.py", line
63, in Connect
    return apply(Connection, args, kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py", line
116, in __init__
    self.converter[types.StringType] = self.string_literal
TypeError: object does not support item assignment

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any thoughts? did i not build it correctly?