Python and Django OperationalError (2006, 'MySQL server has gone away')

Question

Original: I have recently started getting MySQL OperationalErrors from some of my old code and cannot seem to trace back the problem. Since it was working before, I thought

Answer 1

How old is this code? Django has had databases defined in settings since at least .96. Only other thing I can think of is multi-db support, which changed things a bit, but even that was 1.1 or 1.2.

Even if you need a special DB for certain views, I think you'd probably be better off defining it in settings.