How to copy a database with mysqldump and mysql in Python?

Question

I am writing a simple Python script to copy a MySQL database. I am attempting to copy the database based on the following SO questions and their answers: \"Copy/duplicate da

Answer 1

One problem that I saw is on this line:

p2 = Popen(args1, stdin=p1.stdout, stdout=PIPE, stderr=STDOUT)

It should read:

p2 = Popen(args2, stdin=p1.stdout, stdout=PIPE, stderr=STDOUT)

(args1 were being passed to the second proc, so that the program did two dumps and zero restores)