Actually, I can't make autoCommit work properly with Turbogears and MySQLdb, but I think the blame lies within SQLObject. If I add autoCommit=0 to the database URI, SQLObject ultimately tries to pass '0' to MySQLdb, i.e. there's no attempt to turn the value into an integer. This results in a TypeError, since the the connection.autocommit() method needs an integer (boolean types work too). I notice that the sybase handling code applies int() to the value, but this doesn't seem to happen for other databases.
I'll file a bug if there's some consensus that this is a SQLObject issue and not a Turbogears issue. SQLObject seems to be where URI parsing occurs.
