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trouble installing MySQLdb (cygwin) + Bonus question

John Nagle nagle at animats.com
Tue Jan 25 16:34:26 EST 2011 
On 1/25/2011 7:05 AM, Matthew Roth wrote:
> On Jan 25, 4:30 am, Dennis Lee Bieber<wlfr... at ix.netcom.com>  wrote:
>> On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:25:09 -0800 (PST), Matthew Roth
>> <mgrot... at gmail.com>  declaimed the following in
>> gmane.comp.python.general:

>>          Second -- MySQL is a server model DBMS; it doesn't have to be on the
>> local machine.
> --
> unfortunately, for my use it does. We do have an old centOs box here,
> but the mysql running on that is severely outdated and so too is the
> python.

    You can install a MySQL server under Windows, and talk to the server
from the Cygwin environment.  That's a useful way to test.

					John Nagle
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