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

First install the driver (Ubuntu)

• sudo apt-get install python-pip

• sudo pip install -U pip

• sudo apt-get install python-dev libmysqlclient-dev

• sudo apt-get install MySQL-python

MySQL database connection codes

import MySQLdb
conn = MySQLdb.connect (host = "localhost",user = "root",passwd = "pass",db = "dbname")
cursor = conn.cursor ()
cursor.execute ("SELECT VERSION()")
row = cursor.fetchone ()
print "server version:", row[0]
cursor.close ()
conn.close ()