adodb with mysql - connection string syntax for filepath

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Tue Sep 18 09:32:45 EDT 2007


Mridula Ramesh wrote:
> Hi. Firstly, thank you both very much for the response!
> 
> Cliff, I did some more reading up about it after  you corrected me re 
> MySQL not being a _language_  but another means of storing data (would 
> you believe NONE of the connection tutorials actually said that?!) 
> Anyway, now I have MySQL on my machine, and it's installed - if I say 
> "import MySQLdb" in python prompt, it does that, but I can't see any exe 
> in the program's folder itself: does that mean tables can only be 
> created by code? *puzzled*
> 
> Steve, thank you too, I looked up the link you had given, but I do not 
> yet know which part of that site may help me... And I am now going to 
> struggle with Dive Into Python before attempting much else!
> 
> This is a nice, helpful mailing group!
> 
We try, though not everyone appreciates us :-)

You may find

   http://www.connectionstrings.com/

more helpful.

regard
  Steve
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