How do youretrieve data from a table in MySQL database through Python code? Explain.

Answer 1

Hi Ben,

In order to connect to MySQL via a client application, you need to have a program driver. In the case of Python, you'll need to install the MYSQL driver for Python. The following command can be used to install the module:

pip install mysql-connector

The following code example will retrieve data from the database:

import mysql.connector

mydb = mysql.connector.connect(

host="localhost",

user="yourusername",

passwd="yourpassword",

database="mydatabase"

)

mycursor = mydb.cursor()

mycursor.execute("SELECT * FROM <table>")

myresult = mycursor.fetchall()

for x in myresult:

print(x)

Hope that gives you a guideline.