Does not work for me. I used clean Windows XP system 1. Installed Python26 (default path) 2. Installed http://home.netimperia.com/files/misc/MySQL-python-1.2.2.win32-py2.6.exe 3. Opened python console 4. ran the following commad : import MySQLdb I received the following output: C:\Python26>python Python 2.6 (r26:66721, Oct 2 2008, 11:35:03) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyri