MySQL: Check if the user exists and drop it

Question

There’s not standard way to check if a MySQL user exists and based on that drop it. Are there any workarounds for this?

Edit: I need a straight way to run this wi

Answer 1

To phyzome's answer (most highly voted one), it seems to me that if you put "identified by" at the end of the grant statement, the user will be created automatically. But if you don't, the user is not created. The following code works for me,

GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
DROP USER 'username'@'localhost';

Hope this helps.