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 step to get The Library: Open terminal and execute pip install mysql-python-connector. After the installation go the second step.

Second Step to import the library: Open your python file and write the following code: import mysql.connector

Third step to connect to the server: Write the following code:

conn = mysql.connector.connect(host=you host name like localhost or 127.0.0.1, username=your username like root, password = your password)

Third step Making the cursor: Making a cursor makes it easy for us to run queries. To make the cursor use the following code: cursor = conn.cursor()

Executing queries: For executing queries you can do the following: cursor.execute(query)

If the query changes any thing in the table you need to add the following code after the execution of the query: conn.commit()

Getting values from a query: If you want to get values from a query then you can do the following: cursor.excecute('SELECT * FROM table_name') for i in cursor: print(i) #Or for i in cursor.fetchall(): print(i)

The fetchall() method returns a list with many tuples that contain the values that you requested ,row after row .

Closing the connection: To close the connection you should use the following code: conn.close()

Handling exception: To Handel exception you can do it Vai the following method: try: #Logic pass except mysql.connector.errors.Error: #Logic pass To use a database: For example you are a account creating system where you are storing the data in a database named blabla, you can just add a database parameter to the connect() method ,like

mysql.connector.connect(database = database name)

don't remove other informations like host,username,password.