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

[Fuzzyman]

johnf wrote:
> 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.
>

And providing 'built-in' drivers for massively popular databases would
prevent that from being true how ?

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> Johnf