the mysql-connecter-python is an open source Python library that can connect your python code to the MySQL data base in a few lines of code. And it is very compatible with the latest version of Python. After install the mysql-connector-python, you can connect to your MySQL database using the the following code snippet.

If I use MySQLdb to connect to MySQL-Server through Python. I create a connection and a cursor like this: connection = MySQLdb.connect(...) cursor = connection.cursor() # process When the MySQL-processing is done one should close the connection. Now I was wondering: Is it sufficient to close the connection by doing: connection.close()

Mar 5, 2019 · well, since you connect to mysql on second line you can just "try-except" this particular line, no need to handle other lines for connection failures – Volodymyr Vyshnevskyi Commented Mar 5, 2019 at 16:38

Sep 19, 2008 · What is the best "drop in" solution to switch this over to using connection pooling in python? I am imagining something like the commons DBCP solution for Java. The process is long running and has many threads that need to make requests, but not all at the same time... specifically they do quite a lot of work before brief bursts of writing out ...

Dec 26, 2017 · From what I see in the source code, there is the is_connected() method on a "connection" object: Returns True when connected; False otherwise. import mysql.connector cnx = mysql.connector.connect(user='scott', password='tiger', host='127.0.0.1', database='employees') print(cnx.is_connected())

Mar 31, 2015 · I am having difficulty accessing MySQL remotely. I use SSH tunnel and want to connect the database MySQL using Python+SQLALchemy. When i use MySQL-client in my console and specify "ptotocol=TCP", then everything is fine! I use command: mysql -h localhost —protocol=TCP -u USER -p

Jun 28, 2017 · You can use Connection.open attribute. The Connection.open field will be 1 if the connection is open and 0 otherwise. So you can say. if conn.open: # do something The conn.open attribute will tell you whether the connection has been explicitly closed or whether a remote close has been detected.

Jul 31, 2012 · I am accessing a MySQL database from python via MySQLdb library. I am attempting to test the database connection as shown below. db = MySQLdb.connect(self.server, self.user, ...

I'm the database administrator, so I can do something on that end if I need to. I'd prefer only to change the timeout for one particular MySQL user, though, and not for everyone, which is why I'm starting from the Python side. Here's what I've found so far: The documentation for mysql.connecter lists several timeout parameters. Connect-timeout ...

Oct 18, 2013 · By doing this, the application uses 1 connection. The other way is to create connection every time I need to execute a transaction. Approach 1, prevents the application from creating and deleting connections over and over but it …