It seems there were no 64bit distribution for Windows (at least for Python 2.6.x) in public and some of the 32bit ones I have tried had not been built with charset support for languages like greek or hebrew (not that I need them since the encoding I use is utf-8).

You can download the distributions from here:Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file.

UPDATE – Embedded binaries also available:

For the 64bit embedded versions get:Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file.

For the 32bit embedded versions get: Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file.

The embedded versions are linked against libmysqld.dll which must be present in the program directory (you will get a dll load fail if it isn’t there) and the share directory must also exist or else the program will crash in MySQLdb.server_init().