[Zope-DB] MySQLDA: server_capabilities

[Chris Withers]

brianc at temple.edu wrote:

> Ran into this error while trying to install ZMySQLDA. 
>  
> Error Type: AttributeError 
> Error Value: server_capabilities 

...try running into google, it'll save you lots of wheel re-discovery ;-)

>>>>import MySQLdb 
>>>>
> 
> MySQLdb.connect(user='XXX',passwd='XXX',db='XXX').server_capabilities 
> 41516 
> 
>>>>import _mysql 
>>>>
> 
> _mysql.connect(user='XXX',passwd='XXX',db='XXX').server_capabilities 
> Traceback (most recent call last): 
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? 
> AttributeError: server_capabilities 

Yeah, if you find my mail thread, you'll find the background for this...

> Theoretically I can hack my Zope problem to make it use the 
> MySQLdb connection instead of _mysql but would prefer not 
> to. 

Again, in the thread, you'll find pointers to the right version of 
mysqldb/ZMySQLDA to use, or alternatively the patch I made to fix this...

> PS: I forget how to enable traceback on the Zope error 
> pages, anyone have a quick link? Thanks. 

Don't bother, just look in the error_log object in the ZODB root, and 
probably tick the "copy messages to the event log" box...

Chris