python-pandas and databases like mysql

Question

The documentation for Pandas has numerous examples of best practices for working with data stored in various formats.

However, I am unable to find any good examples

Answer 1

And this is how you connect to PostgreSQL using psycopg2 driver (install with "apt-get install python-psycopg2" if you're on Debian Linux derivative OS).

import pandas.io.sql as psql
import psycopg2

conn = psycopg2.connect("dbname='datawarehouse' user='user1' host='localhost' password='uberdba'")

q = """select month_idx, sum(payment) from bi_some_table"""

df3 = psql.frame_query(q, conn)