I have installed couchDB v 0.10.0, and am attempting to talk to it via python from Couch class downloaded from couchDB wiki. Problem is:
Create database \'mydb\'
To concour David's reply, (i.e. "This is how I do it using module CouchDB 0.8 in python 2.6 with couchdb 1.0.2")
couch = couchdb.Server(couch_server)
couch.resource.credentials = (USERNAME, PASSWORD)