PyMySQL can't connect to MySQL on localhost

Question

I\'m trying to connect to MySQL on localhost using PyMySQL:

import pymysql
conn = pymysql.connect(db=\'base\', user=\'         


        

Answer 1

This worked for me:

import pymysql

db = pymysql.connect(host="localhost",port=8889,user="root",passwd="root")
cursor=db.cursor()
cursor.execute("SHOW DATABASES")
results=cursor.fetchall()
for result in results:
    print (result)

if you want to find the port # go to mysql in terminal, and type:

SHOW VARIABLES WHERE Variable_name = 'hostname';
SHOW VARIABLES WHERE Variable_name = 'port';