MySQL and Python on Linux - Proper Method?

[Markus Wankus]

Hi all,

I am about to dive into my first Python/wxPython app on Linux using a MySQL 
database backend.  I was wondering what the proper way of doing this on 
Linux is.  I can currently see a couple of options:

1) Using mxODBC (looks to be the most promising right now...)
2) Using MySQLdb (is this dead?) and probably SQLDict to make my life 
easier...

I'm sure there are kajillions (OK, maybe not kajillions but millions at 
least...) of Pythonistas doing this so I was curious as to what the 
accepted method of doing this is?  I am finding surprisingly little 
information on this subject.  Well, there is lots of info out there but it 
seems to be all over the map in terms of what the accepted method is.

I will ultimately be installing my *platform-independent* application on 
Windows machines as well.  I assume I will just be using an ODBC driver to 
connect to the MySQL database (running on a Linux server).

Thanks for any advice.

-- 
Markus