Accessing MySQL from Python 3: Access denied for user

Question

I tried to access MySQL from Python 3.3 with the following methods:

import mysql.connector

config = {
  \'user\': \'###\',
  \'password\': \'******\',
  \'h         


        

Answer 1

I was getting this error because I had quotes in my config file.

[mysql]
username: 'uuuu'
password: 'pppp'
host: 'localhost'
database: 'ffffdd'

gave me the error. However, removing the quotes worked:

[mysql]
username: uuuu
password: pppp
host: localhost
database: ffffdd