In this tutorial you will learn how to use a widely used database management system called MySQL in Python. You do not need any previous knowledge of MySQL to use this tutorial, but there is a lot more to MySQL than covered in this short introductory tutorial.
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MySQL tutorial
Data is stored in a collection of tables with each table consisting of a set of rows and columns. This is similar to how data is stored in SQLite. To interact with the data stored in tables we use a special-purpose programming language called SQL.
Step 1: Install MySQL
First you must install a MySQL driver, use the specific installation method below.
On Windows:
Install MySQLdb using the installer.
On Linux:
Install MySQLdb using:
sudo apt-get install python-mysqldb
yum install mysql-python
depending on your version.
On Mac:
Follow the installation instructions from stackoverflow
MySQL server has to be running before going to the next step.
Step 2: Setup the database
Make sure you have database access, from the command line type:
mysql -u USERNAME -p
MySQL will then ask your password. Type these commands:
mysql> CREATE DATABASE pythonspot;
mysql> USE pythonspot;
We go on the create the table:
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS examples (
id int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
description varchar(45),
PRIMARY KEY (id)
);
Then we can insert data into the table (these are SQL queries):
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INSERT INTO examples(description) VALUES ("Hello World");
INSERT INTO examples(description) VALUES ("MySQL Example");
INSERT INTO examples(description) VALUES ("Flask Example");
You can now grab all records from the table using a SQL query:
mysql> SELECT * FROM examples;
+----+---------------+
| id | description |
+----+---------------+
| 1 | Hello World |
| 2 | MySQL Example |
| 3 | Flask Example |
+----+---------------+
3 rows in set (0.01 sec)
Step 3: Getting the data from Python
You can access the database directly from Python using the MySQLdb module.
import MySQLdb
db = MySQLdb.connect(host="localhost",
user="root",
passwd="root",
db="pythonspot")
cur = db.cursor()
cur.execute("SELECT * FROM examples")
for row in cur.fetchall() :
print row[0], " ", row[1]
Output:
1 Hello World
2 MySQL Example
3 Flask Example
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