Access to a MySQL database

[Wulf]

I tried to get access to a MySQL database like this:

import MySQLdb

db = MySQLdb.connect(db = 'mydb', user = 'user', passwd = 'password')

I get this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "Myfile.py", line 3, in ?
db = MySQLdb.connect(db = 'mydb', user = 'user', passwd = 'password')
File "/usr/local/lib/python1.6/site-packages/MySQLdb.py", line 457, in __init__
i = map(int, split(split(self._server_info, '-')[0], '.'))
ValueError: invalid literal for int(): 26a