MySQLdb connection issues (no replies)

I'm having issues connecting to mysql from my python script, here is what i get,

[jonathan@hosname sql_scripts]$ python sql.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "sql.py", line 14, in <module>
sql_connection = mdb.connect(sql_host,sql_username,sql_password,sql_database)
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/MySQLdb/__init__.py", line 81, in Connect
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/MySQLdb/connections.py", line 193, in __init__
_mysql_exceptions.OperationalError: (1045, "Access denied for user 'jonathan'@'localhost' (using password: YES)"

Here are my versions:

Python 2.7.5 (default, Oct 1 2013, 20:49:11)
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-3)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>
>>> MySQLdb.version_info
(1, 2, 5, 'final', 1)
>>>

[jonathan@hostname sql_scripts]$ mysql -V
/db/mysql/current/bin/mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.6.16-64.2, for Linux (x86_64) using EditLine wrapper
[jonathan@hostname sql_scripts]$

mysql> SHOW GRANTS FOR 'jonathan'@'localhost';
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Grants for jonathan@localhost |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'jonathan'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD '*D1D13DBB11064ACBE5BAA7A8516D722F27E258AF' |
| GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `NetInventory`.* TO 'jonathan'@'localhost' |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql>


mysql> SELECT user,host,password FROM mysql.user;
+-----------+--------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| user | host | password |
+-----------+--------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| root | localhost | *D1D13DBB11064ACBE5BAA7A8516D722F27E258AF |
| root | hostname
| *D1D13DBB11064ACBE5BAA7A8516D722F27E258AF |
| root | 127.0.0.1 | *D1D13DBB11064ACBE5BAA7A8516D722F27E258AF |
| root | ::1 | *D1D13DBB11064ACBE5BAA7A8516D722F27E258AF |
| | localhost | |
| | hostname
| |
| dbadmin | localhost | *125EA03B506F7C876D9321E9055F37601461E970 |
| repl | % | *D1D13DBB11064ACBE5BAA7A8516D722F27E258AF |
| jonathan | localhost | *D1D13DBB11064ACBE5BAA7A8516D722F27E258AF |
+-----------+--------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+
9 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql>

Any ideas?