MySQLdb in Python: “Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost'”

Question

I have installed MySQLdb for Python and I am able to import MySQLdb. Now I try to connect to the MySQL Community Server on my local machine, using this code:

Answer 1

Make sure to provide the proper host and port:

'default': {
    'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql', 
    'NAME': 'yourdbname',                      
    'USER': 'root',                      
    'PASSWORD': 'your password',         
    'HOST': '127.0.0.1',                 
    'PORT': '3306',                      
},

This is my settings.py file config for my django app.

Same for you please take host "127.0.0.1" and port "3306".

This might solve your problem. And for python idle I've tested like...

>>> import MySQLdb
>>> Con = MySQLdb.Connect(host="127.0.0.1", port=3306, user="yoruname", passwd="yourpwd", db="test")
>>> Cursor = Con.cursor()
>>> sql = "SELECT * FROM test.testing"
>>> Cursor.execute(sql)
2L