Python mysql (using pymysql) auto reconnect

Question

I\'m not sure if this is possible, but I\'m looking for a way to reconnect to mysql database when the connection is lost. All the connections are held in a gevent queue but that

Answer 1

Well, I've got the same problem in my application and I found a method on the PyMySQL documentation that pings to the server and check if the connection was closed or not, if it was closed, then it reconnects again.

from pymysql import connect
from pymysql.cursors import DictCursor

# create the connection
connection = connect(host='host', port='port', user='user', 
                     password='password', db='db', 
                     cursorclass=DictCursor)

# get the cursor
cursor = connection.cursor()

# if the connection was lost, then it reconnects
connection.ping(reconnect=True)      

# execute the query
cursor.execute(query)

I hope it helps.