MySQLdb windows binaries for Python 2.5?? Yes, but from a World of Warcraft guild.

[johnf]

John Nagle wrote:

> Jan Dries wrote:
>> Henk.van.Asselt at gmail.com wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm also looking for a MySQLdb binary for windows. This is holding me
>>> from upgrading from Python 2.4 to Python 2.5 !
>>>
>> 
>> If you search the Help Forum of the MySQLdb project on SourceForge, you
>> will find a couple of people who have successfully built MySQLdb on
>> Windows for 2.5, and are willing to share their installers.
>> That's how I got my binaries.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Jan
> 
>     Yes, see
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1571110&forum_id=70461
> 
> for an untested version created by a World of Warcraft guild:
> 
>
http://www.guildmanus.com/uploaded/MySQL-python.exe-1.2.2b2.win32-py2.5.exe
> 
> This, apparently, is the extent of current Python support for MySQL.
> Want to install that executable, as root, on your production machines?
> 
> This is embarassing for the Python community.  Perl and PHP come
> with MySQL support built in.  Python is out to lunch on this.
> 
> John Nagle
> Animats
I couldn't disagree more.  That fact that no Database drivers are built-in
makes Python stronger - allowing Python to access any Data Engine that
supports DBI 2.0.  Of course I'm not including pickle in my assessment.

Johnf