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

mysql version: 5.7

Using mysql-connector. To install mysql-connector package in python3.

python3 -m pip install mysql-connector

To Connect with your database and querying, use following lines of code in your python script:

import mysql.connector

database=mysql.connector.connect(host='localhost',user='user',passwd='password',datbase='dbname')
    cursor=database.cursor()
    query="select * from test_table"
    cursor.execute(query)
    database.commit()