Python 3.4.0 with MySQL database

Question

I have installed Python version 3.4.0 and I would like to do a project with MySQL database. I downloaded and tried installing MySQL

Answer 1

There is a Ubuntu solution available either through the Ubuntu Software Center or through the Synaptic Package Manager. This will connect Python version 3.4.0 to MySQL. Download "python3-mysql.connector" version 1.1.6-1.

Note that the connection syntax does not use "MySQLdb". Instead read: Connecting to MySQL Using Connector/Python

Answer 2

Alternatively, you can use mysqlclient or oursql. For oursql, use the oursql py3k series as my link points to.

Answer 3

I solved it this way: download the zipped package from here and follow this set of instructions:

unzip  /path/to/downloads/folder/mysql-connector-python-VER.zip  

In case u got a .gz u can use ->

tar xzf mysql-connector-python-VER.tar.gz 

And then:

cd mysql-connector-python-VER  # move into the directory

sudo python3 setup.py install # NOTICE I USED PYTHON3 INSTEAD OF PYTHON

You can read about it here

Answer 4

It seems that at the moment Ubuntu 15.10 has a but with python3 and pip3.

As elaborated in this article.

The problem makes pip3 install to python3.5 while python3 is actually running python3.4 :(

Until a proper solution will be available via the updates you can do one of the following:

run

python3 -m pip install pymysql

instead of

pip3 install pymysql

(or any other package)

Now

import pymysql

should work in python3 and in idle3.

Alternatively, if you explicitly need 3.5 you can use explicit python3.5 instead of python3. but idle3 will still point to 3.4...

Answer 5

Maybe you can use a work around and try something like:

import datetime
#import mysql
import MySQLdb
conn = MySQLdb.connect(host = '127.0.0.1',user = 'someUser', passwd = 'foobar',db = 'foobardb')
cursor = conn.cursor()

Answer 6

Use mysql-connector-python. I prefer to install it with pip from PyPI:

pip install --allow-external mysql-connector-python mysql-connector-python

Have a look at its documentation and examples.

If you are going to use pooling make sure your database has enough connections available as the default settings may not be enough.