Searching python-list and MySQL

[Richard Brosnahan]

I hate asking questions that have probably been answered before, but  
I have not found a way to conveniently search the archives of this  
mailing list.

So...

Can someone tell me how to search this mailing list, short of  
downloading every month's archive and searching manually?

Or, can someone tell me how to easily interface with MySQL with  
python? I've successfully hooked python up with PostgreSQL, but this  
MySQL thing has been more difficult.

I know about  mysyql-python
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python.

I would describe the requirements for building mysql-python as  
annoying. OK, if I'm building from scratch, the requirements are  
understandable. Still, annoying.

I have a web server running SuSE that does not have MySQL installed,  
that I want to connect to a different server running MySQL. In order  
to create this python module, it appears I've got to create it on a  
server with mysql and mysql-devel, and various other items, and then  
move it to the web server.

So I installed those items, reluctantly, on the web server and ran  
python2.4 setup.py build
The script complained about a lot of things, including not finding  
mysql_config. I then added mysql_config to the PATH, and it generated  
a whole slew of other errors related to GCC. GCC is installed...

Someone on this list MUST have solved this before...

Can anyone provide me a hint? Is there a SuSE rpm, that doesn't spew  
out 400 dependency errors?

I would very much appreciate any hints.

tia

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Richard Brosnahan
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