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I have been searching the docs, and just noticed that the
MySQLdb.connect function will do the config file reading
*if* it is passed either a read_default_file or
read_default_group option.  Unfortunately, those options are
the last two specified for the function.  This can be done
in the config file by setting:

MYSQL_DATABASE = ( MYSQL_DBHOST, MYSQL_DBUSER,
MYSQL_DBPASSWORD, MYSQL_DBNAME, None, None, None, None,
None, None, None, None, 'roundup' )

Since all those Nones are easy to mess up (easy to get the
wrong numberor the API for MySQLdb.connect could change),
you could make MYSQL_DATABASE be a dictionary, and drop the
other MYSQL_* configuration options:

MYSQL_DATABASE = {
  host:'localhost',
  user:'roundup',
  passwd:'asdhfakshdfk',
  db:'roundup',
  read_default_group:'roundup',
}

I'll work on a patch to allow for this.  The most important
part, however, is that all the connects need to use the same
options (right now only one of them uses MYSQL_DATABASE, the
rest all break).