Connect on remote MySQL database through Python

Question

I have tried the following script but unfortunately doesn\'t work. I am using a free MySQL database provider. Any ideas?

import MySQLdb

myDB = MySQLdb.conne         


        

Answer 1

This is what I would do

1. See if the port is actually open on that machine.
2. On the machine you are connecting from, open console/cmd/terminal and see if you can connect using mysql -u XXXX -h 208.11.220.249 -p. If your mysql client can not connect, then there is no way you can connect using python