title: Standalone Library to Connect to MySQL Server
body: <p>I've recently wrote up a little application for work to ease our on the fly notetaking. I wrote the program in IronPython, but have since hit a brickwall as I  can't find an easy way to connect to an external MySQL server we host for record keeping.</p>
  
  <p>My constraints for this application are that it has to be purely portable across both Win XP and 7 systems. So basically, no installations.</p>
  
  <p>I've read up on MySQLdb and some others but can't seem to find anything that does not require installation.</p>
  
  <p>What classes or libraries can I use to straightforwardly connect to a MySQL server, without installing anything? If there are none for IronPython, is there one for another language? Alternatively, is there a way to use MySQLdb without requiring it to be installed on the client system?</p>