Aquarius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I want to know if there is a way to interface a MySQL database without >Python-MySQL or without installing anything that has C files that need >to be compiled. The reason for this, is that I want to develop a >certain web application, but my hosting provider ([EMAIL PROTECTED]@#%) isn't >very >eager to supply Python-MySQL (or any modules to python). Is there an >alternative approach I could use to pass around this ridiculos lack of >functionality?
If you've got MySQL installed, you probably have a command-line mysql client, and you could use subprocess or popen to run that. That's a little desperate though, and the error handling will suck. (I've seen this trick used with other databases.) -- \S -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chaos.org.uk/~sion/ ___ | "Frankly I have no feelings towards penguins one way or the other" \X/ | -- Arthur C. Clarke her nu becomeþ se bera eadward ofdun hlæddre heafdes bæce bump bump bump
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