Python mysqldb Install
In this tutorial, we will follow step by step to install the mysql database and connector in python.
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mysqldb installation steps:
To communicate with MySQL database from Python, we need a program that becomes an interface to the MySQL database server. 'MySQLdb' is an interface between the MySQL server and Python programs. Unless we install this interface, our Python programs cannot communicate with MySQL database. The following steps represent how to install the MySQLdb interface:
- Visit the following web page :
- The downloaded file name will be: mysqlclient-1.3.12-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl, which is a .whl file. Such files cannot be executed by double clicking. We can execute such files using 'pip' program supplied with Python. Hence, go to that directory where this .whl file is available and type there pip command at System prompt as:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mysqlclient
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D:\Python\mysql>pip install mysqlclient-1.4.2.post1-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl
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Install mysqldb connector
To connect the python application with the MySQL database, we must import the mysql.connector module in the program.
The mysql.connector is not a built-in module that comes with the python installation. We need to install it to get it working.
Execute the following command to install it using pip installer.
pip install mysql-connector