The (hopefully) final release candidate for MySQL-python (MySQLdb) is out: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=22307 (mysql-python-test 0.9.2c3) ZMySQLDA is still on 2.0.9b2. That seemed to help prevent some crashing problems, although it seemed a lot of those crashes were fixed by Python-2.1.3. So I'd like some feedback on this: Did you try ZMySQLDA-2.0.9b2 to fix problems that you were having with 2.0.8? If so, what was the effect? Zope notes: MySQLdb-0.9.2 plays nicely with Python-2.2.1; not sure if 2.6 is targeting Python-2.2 or 2.1. If you are using Python-2.2 or newer, _mysql.connection and .result are sub-classable types. There's also more support for Unicode now; not sure what the current SOTA is for Unicode in Zope. ZMySQLDA doesn't do anything with Unicode currently, but could very easily. -- Andy Dustman PGP: 0x930B8AB6 @ .net http://dustman.net/andy "Cogito, ergo sum." -- Rene Descartes "I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam." -- Popeye