How do I connect to a MySQL Database in Python?

Question

How do I connect to a MySQL database using a python program?

Answer 1

Run this command in your terminal to install mysql connector:

pip install mysql-connector-python

And run this in your python editor to connect to MySQL:

import mysql.connector

mydb = mysql.connector.connect(
      host="localhost",
      user="yusername",
      passwd="password",
      database="database_name"
)

Samples to execute MySQL Commands (in your python edior):

mycursor = mydb.cursor()
mycursor.execute("CREATE TABLE customers (name VARCHAR(255), address VARCHAR(255))")    
mycursor.execute("SHOW TABLES")

mycursor.execute("INSERT INTO customers (name, address) VALUES ('John', 'Highway 21')")    
mydb.commit() # Use this command after insert or update

For more commands: https://www.w3schools.com/python/python_mysql_getstarted.asp