[Zope] MYSQL Problem

I installed mySQL-3.23.32 mySQLdb 0.3.1 ZmySQLDA 2.0.4 on Win98

From the following SQL statment I get the result 233L and not 233 as expected

select count(PID) from product When I run this SQL Statment from another program I get the expected value 233. In my installation there are a lot of Z SQL Methods that should return an int value and when I use field description int in the database I always get this 'L' behind the expected result. A lot of things don´t work because of this. When I change to mediumint (database field description) I get the expected 233. How can I fix this. Thanks Jens