MySQLDB - server has gone on blob insertion...

[John Nagle]

durumdara wrote:
>>> When I tried to start this, I got error:
>>> _mysql_exceptions.OperationalError: (2006, 'MySQL server has gone away')

    Are you by any chance trying to do this on a HostGator account?
HostGator servers run a program which kills long MySQL transactions
by executing MySQL "KILL" transactions.
This is reported to the user as 'MySQL server has gone away'

					John Nagle