MySQL server has gone away 104 Error

[Mark Constant]

I have an open source piece of software made up of different python scripts that I downloaded. Mostly all parts connect to the mysql backend. There is one python module that is getting the error (2006, "MySQL server has gone away (error(104, 'Connection reset by peer'))"). I thought it was the Insert statement maybe being too long or having to much information. On the MySQL side I tried in MySQL the command set global max_allowed_packet=1072731894; and when I do SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES LIKE 'max_allowed_packet'; it says max_allowed_packet | 1072731136 |
So I am somewhat confused about what I can do when obviously the database is accepting connections for one part and keeps failing on one insert statement.