Using MySQL in Flask

Question

Can someone share example codes in Flask on how to access a MySQL DB? There have been documents showing how to connect to sqlite but not on MySQL.

Thank you very muc

Answer 1

#!/usr/bin/python
from flask import Flask,jsonify,abort, make_response
import MySQLdb

app = Flask(__name__)

db = MySQLdb.connect("localhost", "root", "yourDbPassWord", "DBname")

@app.route('/api/v1.0/items', methods=['GET'])
def get_items():
    curs = db.cursor()
    try:
        curs.execute("SELECT * FROM items")
        ...

    except:
        print "Error: unable to fetch items"
    return jsonify({"desired: " response})