Thanks for the replies. I ended up de-installing everything (Python, MySQL,
etc.) and re-installing. It works now, so I suspect the problem was that I
had failed to re-install mxDateTime, a documented requirement for MySQLdb.
Sorry to bother the lists for a boneheaded error ...
John
John, this sounds to me like what happens when you have a file called
"MySQLDb.py" or "MySQLDb.pyc" hanging around other than the one you
expect. Here's what I would do to diagnose (replace string with
MySQLdb):
>>> import string
>>> dir(string)
[]
>>> string.__file__
'c:\\python20\\lib\\stri
