MySQLdb trouble

[John Salerno]

Thomas Bartkus wrote:

> 1) His code body will be less likely to cause migrane headaches when he
> tries to read and interpret what he did a year from now.  If you are trying
> to figure out what is going on with the logic, user names and passwords can
> be so much chaff your brain needs to wade through in order to get to the
> central idea.
> 
> 2) The coder won't have to repeat himself if he needs to re-open the
> databases.

Ah, that makes sense! It seemed like an unnecessary step, but in some 
ways it might end up being more efficient.