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

PyMySQL 0.10.1 - Released: Sep 10, 2020, has support for python3 as well.

python3 -m pip install PyMySQL

Simple code:

import pymysql

# Connect to the database
conn = pymysql.connect(host='127.0.0.1',user='root',passwd='root',db='fax')

# Create a Cursor object
cur = conn.cursor()

# Execute the query
cur.execute("SELECT * FROM fax.student")

# Read and print records
for row in cur.fetchall():
    print(row)

output:

(1, 'Petar', 'Petrovic', 1813, 'Njegusi')
(2, 'Donald', 'Tramp', 1946, 'New York')
(3, 'Bill', 'Gates', 1955, 'Seattle')