MySQLdb connection problems

Question

I\'m having trouble with the MySQLdb module.

db = MySQLdb.connect(
    host = \'localhost\', 
    user = \'root\', 
    passwd = \'\', 
    db = \'testdb\',          


        

Answer 1

add unix_socket='path_to_socket' where path_to_socket should be the path of the MySQL socket, e.g. /var/run/mysqld/mysqld2.sock