[Tutor] Problem installing MySQLdb under windows

[Andy Koch]

Kent Johnson wrote:
> Peter Jessop wrote:
>> I am running Python 2.4.3, MySQL 5.0.
>> On trying to install MySQLdb 1.2.1 I ran into the following problem.
>> "
>> D:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\MySQLdb>setup.py build
>> running build
>> running build_py
>> copying MySQLdb\release.py -> build\lib.win32- 2.4\MySQLdb
>> running build_ext
>> error: The .NET Framework SDK needs to be installed before building 
>> extensions f
>> or Python.
>>
>> "
>> Is it really necessary to install The .NET Framework SDK (354Mb) or is 
>> there a simpler way?
> 
> Download the windows binary, for example 
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mysql-python/MySQL-python.exe-1.2.0.win32-py2.4.zip?download
> 
> The latest version with a Windows build is 1.2.0.
> 
> Kent
> 
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Greetings Python group,

I have a question related to the MySQLdb, I have recently installed the 
1.2.0 version and it works fine.  However, I am running ver. 4.1 of 
MySQL and the problem is that the python client version does not support 
the new password protocol of MySQL 4.1+.  This only means that one must 
go into the MySQL and set the password using the OLD_PASSWORD function 
of MySQL.

The question, do any of the newer versions of MySQLdb support the new 
password protocol?  And if not, are there plans to implement this?

Disclosure: this is my first post in this group, also it may be worth 
noting that I'm learning python as a side effect of developing a Plone 
site.  So if my python knowledge comes across as a bit warped... well, 
Plone can sometimes be a strange thing ;)

Regards,

Andy Koch