Python and MySQL

[Thomas Bartkus]

"Steve Holden" <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote in message
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> Thomas Bartkus wrote:
> > "Steve Holden" <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote in message
> > news:mailman.44.1130970219.18701.python-list at python.org...
> >
> >>I have a _mysql.c as a part of my distrbution of MySQLdb. Don't you?
> >>
> >
> >
> > You made me give that library a good hard stare.
> >
> > And no - everything is enunciated in clear Python (.py) code with
> > corresponding (.pyc) and (.pyo).  It appears we have Python source for
> > everything.
> >
> >    FWIW:
> >
> >
> >>>>print MySQLdb.version_info
> >
> > (1, 2, 0, 'final', 1)
> >
> OK. I saw that my own version was (1, 0, 0, 'final', 1), so I assumed
> Andy's updated the package somewhat. However, downloading the source of
> 1.2 I see that _mysql.c still appears, and that the package's
> __init__.py still includes the line
>
> include _mysql
>
> My C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages directory does contain a _mylsql.pyd
> file. Would you like to check that we are talking about the same module?

Okay - I neglected to look at the [site-packages] directory itself.  Here I
do find [_mysql.pyd] full of binary code.  A MySQLdb related file that
doesn't seem to have a corresponding file with Python source code. Mea
culpa! This is on  MS Windows [C:\Python23].

But heck!  Now I'm looking at the /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages on a
Mandrake Linux box.  No [_mysql.] pyd here! Fewer files overall and while
there are other file extensions, everything seems to have a corresponding
[.py].

print MySQLdb.version_info
(0, 9, 2, 'final', 1)

Thomas Bartkus