MySQLdb problems with named pipe connection on Windows 7?

[John Nagle]

On 6/10/2010 11:58 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:15:21 -0700, John Nagle<nagle at animats.com>
> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>
>
>> MySQL is configured for connections over named pipes only; it's
>> not running as a TCP server.  Is MySQLdb trying to use TCP for a local
>> connection?  The MySQLdb documentation says that connections to
>> "localhost" on Windows will be made over named pipes.  Does that
>> not work?
>>
> 	I wouldn't be a tad surprised if M$ Win7 has implemented some
> security/privilege scheme on named pipes such that cross process/user
> access is blocked.

     The MySQL command line client can connect with the same privileges.
So that may not be the problem.

				John Nagle