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 ()

Answer 2

If you do not need MySQLdb, but would accept any library, I would very, very much recommend MySQL Connector/Python from MySQL: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/python/.

It is one package (around 110k), pure Python, so it is system independent, and dead simple to install. You just download, double-click, confirm license agreement and go. There is no need for Xcode, MacPorts, compiling, restarting …

Then you connect like:

import mysql.connector    
cnx = mysql.connector.connect(user='scott', password='tiger',
                              host='127.0.0.1',
                              database='employees')

try:
   cursor = cnx.cursor()
   cursor.execute("""
      select 3 from your_table
   """)
   result = cursor.fetchall()
   print result
finally:
    cnx.close()

Answer 3

This is Mysql DB connection

from flask import Flask, render_template, request
from flask_mysqldb import MySQL

app = Flask(__name__)


app.config['MYSQL_HOST'] = 'localhost'
app.config['MYSQL_USER'] = 'root'
app.config['MYSQL_PASSWORD'] = 'root'
app.config['MYSQL_DB'] = 'MyDB'

mysql = MySQL(app)


@app.route('/', methods=['GET', 'POST']) 
def index():
    if request.method == "POST":
        details = request.form
        cur = mysql.connection.cursor()
        cur.execute ("_Your query_")
        mysql.connection.commit()
        cur.close()
        return 'success'
    return render_template('index.html')


if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run()

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

Oracle (MySQL) now supports a pure Python connector. That means no binaries to install: it's just a Python library. It's called "Connector/Python".

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/python/

Answer 6

for Python3.6 I found two driver: pymysql and mysqlclient. I tested the performance between them and got the result: the mysqlclient is faster.

below is my test process(need install python lib profilehooks to analyze time elapse：

raw sql: select * from FOO;

immediatly execute in mysql terminal: 46410 rows in set (0.10 sec)

pymysql (2.4s):

from profilehooks import profile
import pymysql.cursors
import pymysql
connection = pymysql.connect(host='localhost', user='root', db='foo')
c = connection.cursor()

@profile(immediate=True)
def read_by_pymysql():
    c.execute("select * from FOO;")
    res = c.fetchall()

read_by_pymysql()

here's the pymysql profile:

mysqlclient (0.4s)

from profilehooks import profile
import MySQLdb

connection = MySQLdb.connect(host='localhost', user='root', db='foo')
c = connection.cursor()

@profile(immediate=True)
def read_by_mysqlclient():
    c.execute("select * from FOO;")
    res = c.fetchall()

read_by_mysqlclient()

here's the mysqlclient profile:

So, it seems that mysqlclient is much faster than pymysql