Trouble with mysql-python 1.2.0 on Solaris 8 sparc

[Steve Holden]

Alec Wysoker wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> 
> Thanks for your message.  It turned out that I had installed 64-bit
> mySql on a 32-bit machine.  I'm amazed it worked at all.  Anyway, I
> finally got mysql-python built, but I'm unable to connect to a machine
> on a remote host.  The problem doesn't seem to be with the python code,
> because I'm unable to do it even with the mysql command-line client.
> Sigh.
> 
Could be you have a 4.2 server and an earlier client. Unbelievably, 
MySQL changed its protocol while only incrementing the minor version 
number, and this bit me in the ass when I wanted to move up to 4.1.

regards
  Steve