Thanks a lot, I'll check it tomorrow. On the first glance, there might be problem with swe7, dec8, or hp8 charsets of MySQL that are not natively supported in Python. In my case it won't be a problem ...
.mylogin.cnf files are not encrypted, just obfuscated: They contain the key necessary to decrypt them. The mysql_config_editor program does not let you specify a password on the command line, only ...