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Question

Good day. Hope your all are well. Can someone help me with fix this?

I\'m new to the MySQL environment. I\'m trying to connect to MySQL Database remotely. I used th

Answer 1

import mysql.connector
def connection():
    conn = mysql.connector.connect(host = "XXXXX",
                  user = 'XXXXX',
                  password = 'XXXXX',
                  database = 'login_page',
                  auth_plugin='mysql_native_password')

    c = conn.cursor()
    return c , conn

Download mysql connector rather than pymysql and try connecting this way. It worked for me, hope it works for u too.