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

In Windows 32, if you set host as 127.0.01 it gives the down error:

OperationalError: (2005, "Unknown MySQL server host '127.0.01' (0)")

But if you set host as 127.0.0.1 then you get no error.