laynebilyeu - 2004-02-03

I am having trouble connecting to my working MySQL database.
Have the connect keywords changed, or is my module hosed?

Macintosh OSX 10.2.8
fink installed MySQL 4.0.15
MySQLdb 0.9.3b3

Python 2.3.2 (#1, Dec 18 2003, 18:54:10)
[GCC 3.1 20020420 (prerelease)] on darwin
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>>> import MySQLdb

>>> thedb = MySQLdb.connect(db='testdb',user='baseuser', passwd='secret')  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/Applications/Plone2/Sites/Test2/lib/python/MySQLdb/__init__.py", line 63, in Connect
    return apply(Connection, args, kwargs)
  File "/Applications/Plone2/Sites/Test2/lib/python/MySQLdb/connections.py", line 117, in __init__
    self.converter[types.StringType] = self.string_literal
TypeError: object does not support item assignment

>>>     
>>> thedb = MySQL.db.connect(db='testdb')
Fatal Python error: GC object already tracked
Abort