> One side effect of this being third party code is that hosting > services may not have it available, even when they have both Python > and MySQL up. This is never a problem with Perl or PHP, so that's > a negative for Python.
I for one think it is a good thing to not have MySQL adapters integrated into Python core. Neither the philopsophie, nor the licence of the two products fit together. But maybe that's because I am a PostgreSQL zealot - and PostgreSQL and Python is really a match made in heaven. Harald -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
