creating a new database with mysqldb

[John Salerno]

BartlebyScrivener wrote:
> I was hoping you'd find this earlier when I suggested that you type:
> 
> creating a new database with MySQL
> 
> into google.
> 
> It's the number one hit:
> 
> http://coronet.iicm.edu/mysql/create.html
> 
> If you send the commands listed there via the commandline or through
> MySQLdb you should be in business.
> 

I saw this one, but it seems to use a lot of the command line, and I 
didn't know how all that translates into a Python script. My goal was to 
do it all using just mysqldb, but maybe it's just easier (or more 
normal) to create a database in another way, and *then* use mysqldb to 
manipulate it.