I am running an Ubuntu Server. I would like for it to have a Python (v3.2) CGI script that would connect, and run a query, to the local MySQL database I have set up. Currently,
BlaXpirit's answer above to use pymysql works great! But one small caveat. The link to pymysql in his comment will take you to https://github.com/petehunt/PyMySQL/ which is for python 2.x. If you are using python 3, you want to download and install pymysql3 (version 3.0.5 as of 5/12/12) from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyMySQL3/