read frame with sqlalchemy, mysql and pandas

Question

I am trying to connect to a mysql database, works fine with Option 1:

from sqlalchemy import create_engine
engine = create_engine(\'mysql://root:root@localho         


        

Answer 1

You need to have a raw database connection, and not an instance of Connection. In order to get it call either engine.raw_connection() or engine.connect().connection:

from pandas.io import sql
#cnx = engine.connect().connection # option-1
cnx = engine.raw_connection() # option-2
xx = sql.read_frame("SELECT * FROM user", cnx)
cnx.close()