… mind. List of my requirements: – Stable binding to MySQL, support of new protocol with prepared statement is necessary. – good XML handling – Fast in… first requirement of support MySQL narrows the list to Perl, Ruby, Java, C, C++, even Python supports only old mysql protocol (am I…

you’re right, python’s connector does not support server-side prepared statements yet. neither does the pure ruby connector (ruby/mysql), but the one built on top of libmysql (mysql/ruby) does. jim