MySQLdb problems with named pipe connection on Windows 7?

[John Nagle]

    I reconfigured MySQL to allow local network connections, and
now MySQLdb works over TCP.  It doesn't seem to be able to use
Windows 7 named pipes, although the "mysql" command line client can.
There may be a bug.  This wouldn't be noticed unless MySQL
was configured without network connections, which is rare.  I set
up MySQL that way on a development machine with a local MySQL instance.

				John Nagle

On 6/11/2010 9:32 AM, John Nagle wrote:
> 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