MySQLdb trouble

[John Salerno]

Nicolay A. Vasiliev wrote:

> def loc_connect_db():
>    """
>    The DB connection subroutine
>    """
>    db = MySQLdb.connect(host = "localhost",
>                        user = "root",
>                        passwd="mysql",
>                        db="some_db")
>    return db

Hi. Sorry I can't help, but I'm interested in learning about mysqldb and 
I was wondering why you chose to wrap the 'connect' function inside your 
own function. Does this accomplish something that I'm not seeing? 
Couldn't you just use the body of the loc_connect_db() function as your 
actual code in order to get 'db'?

Thanks.