I have no idea. It's not anything MySQLdb does. Why don't you look to the my.cnf file for the answer, in whatever location or name it's at in a Windows install...
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Why on win32 the default user is "ODBC" and not the user that started the client process while accessing MySQL ?
On Linux the default user is not ODBC but $USER...
I have no idea. It's not anything MySQLdb does. Why don't you look to the my.cnf file for the answer, in whatever location or name it's at in a Windows install...