How To Connect To MySQL With Python

If you’re going to be working in a web environment using Python, chances are that you’ll be using MySQL as database management system. That is why software developer Jeremy Morgan of Silicon Forest created this tutorial on how to connect to a MySQL database using Python, which is our featured tutorial of the day.

I’ll be posting the whole code below for you to scrutinize and study but if you what a step-by-step explanation on what each line of code represents and what it does, check out Jeremy’s POST.

#!/usr/bin/python
# datademo.py 
# a simple script to pull some data from MySQL

import MySQLdb

db = MySQLdb.connect(host="localhost", user="root", passwd="", db="test")

#create a cursor for the select
cur = db.cursor()

#execute an sql query
cur.execute("SELECT firstname,lastname FROM test.name")

##Iterate 
for row in cur.fetchall() :
 #data from rows
 firstname = str(row[0])
 lastname = str(row[1])

 #print 
 print "This Person's name is " + firstname + " " + lastname

# close the cursor
cur.close()

# close the connection
db.close ()     

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