Accessing a XAMPP mysql via Python

Question

I\'m attempting to use mysql after only having worked with sqlite in the past.

I\'ve installed XAMPP on Linux (ubuntu) and have mysql up and ru

Answer 1

For the record (and thanks to a pointer from Igancio), I found that the below works (terrible I didn't think of this before):

db=MySQLdb.connect(
   user="root"
  ,passwd=""
  ,db="my_db"
  ,unix_socket="/opt/lampp/var/mysql/mysql.sock")