"_mysql_exceptions.OperationalError: (2006, 'MySQL server has gone away')"

[wo]

This happened today:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bin/scraperdaemon.py", line 70, in <module>
    daemon.start()
  File "bin/scraperdaemon.py", line 38, in start
    self.run()
  File "bin/scraperdaemon.py", line 45, in run
    blogpostprocessor.run()
  File "/home/wo/opp-tools/bin/../opp/blogpostprocessor.py", line 18, in run
    cur.execute(query)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py", line 226, in execute
    self.errorhandler(self, exc, value)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py", line 36, in defaulterrorhandler
    raise errorvalue
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py", line 217, in execute
    res = self._query(query)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py", line 378, in _query
    rowcount = self._do_query(q)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py", line 341, in _do_query
    db.query(q)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py", line 280, in query
    _mysql.connection.query(self, query)
_mysql_exceptions.OperationalError: (2006, 'MySQL server has gone away')

I suppose the mysql connection timed out. Should use something like what's proposed on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/207981/how-to-enable-mysql-client-auto-re-connect-with-mysqldb