INTERFACE PYTHON WITH
MYSQL
Connecting Python application with
Introductio
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Every application required data to be stored for future
reference to manipulate data. Today every application
stores data in database for this purpose
For example, reservation system stores passengers
details for reserving the seats and later on for sending
some messages or for printing tickets etc.
In school student details are saved for many reasons
like attendance, fee collections, exams, report card etc.
Python allows us to connect all types of database like
Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL.
In our syllabus we have to understand how to connect
Python programs with MySQL
Pre-requisite to connect Python with
MySQL
Before we connect python program with any database
like MySQL we need to build a bridge to connect
Python and MySQL.
To build this bridge so that data can travel both ways
we need a connector called “mysql.connector”.
We can install “mysql.connector” by using
following methods:
At command prompt (Administrator login)
Type “pip install mysql.connector” and press enter
(internet connection in required)
This connector will work only for MySQL 5.7.3 or later
Or open
https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/python/
And download connector as per OS and Python version
Connecting to MySQL from
Python
Once the connector is installed you are ready to
connect your python program to MySQL.
The following steps to follow while connecting your
python program with MySQL
Open python
Import the package required (import
mysql.connector)
Open the connection to database
Create a cursor instance
Execute the query and store it in resultset
Extract data from resultset
Clean up the environment
Importing
mysql.connector
import mysql.connector
Or
import mysql.connector as ms
Here “ms” is an alias, so every time we can use “ms” in
place of “mysql.connector”
Open a connection to MySQL
Database
To create connection, connect() function is used
Its syntax is:
connect(host=<server_name>,user=<user_name
>,
passwd=<password>[,database=<database>
])
Here server_name means database servername, generally
it is given as “localhost”
User_name means user by which we connect with mysql
generally it is given as “root”
Password is the password of user “root”
Database is the name of database whose data(table) we
want to use
Example: To establish connection
with MySQL
is_connected() function returns
true if connection is established
otherwise false
“mys” is an alias of package
“mycon” is connection object which stores connection established with MySQL
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specifying parameters like host, user, passwd, database
Table to work
(emp)
Creating
Cursor
It is a useful control structure of database connectivity.
When we fire a query to database, it is executed and
resultset (set of records) is sent over the connection in
one go.
We may want to access data one row at a time, but
query processing cannot happens as one row at a time,
so cursor help us in performing this task. Cursor stores
all the data as a temporary container of returned data
and we can fetch data one row at a time from Cursor.
Creating Cursor and Executing
Query
TO CREATE CURSOR
Cursor_name = connectionObject.cursor()
For e.g.
mycursor = mycon.cursor()
TO EXECUTE QUERY
We use execute() function to send query to
connection
Cursor_name.execute(query)
For e.g.
mycursor.execute("select * from emp")
Example -
Cursor
Output shows cursor is created and query is fired and stored, but no data is
coming. To fetch data we have to use functions like fetchall(), fetchone(),
fetchmany() are used
Fetching(extracting) data from
ResultSet
To extract data from cursor following functions are
used:
fetchall() : it will return all the record in the form of
tuple.
fetchone() : it return one record from the result set.
i.e. first time it will return first record, next time it will
return second record and so on. If no more record it
will return None
fetchmany(n) : it will return n number of records. IF
no more record it will return an empty tuple.
Syntax:
rowcount
count : it will return
= cursor.rowcount number
(It is a of rows )retrieved
cursor property
This from theproperty
read-only cursor returns
so far.the number of rows returned
for SELECT statements, or the number of rows affected by DML statements
such as INSERT or UPDATE.
Example –
fetchall()
Example 2 –
fetchall()
Example 3 –
fetchall()
Example 4:
fetchone()
Example 5:
fetchmany(n)
Guess the
output
Parameterized
Query
We can pass values to query to perform dynamic
search like we want to search for any employee
number entered during runtime or to search any
other column values.
To Create Parameterized query we can use various
methods like:
Concatenating dynamic variable to in
query values are entered. which
String template with % formatting
String template with {} and format function
Concatenating variable with
query
String template with %s
formatting
In this method we will use %s in place of values to
substitute and then pass the value for that place.
String template with %s
formatting
String template with {} and
format()
In this method in place of %s we will use {} and to
pass values for these placeholder format() is used.
Inside we can optionally give 0,1,2… values for e.g.
{0},{1} but its not mandatory. we can also optionally
pass named parameter inside {} so that while passing
values through format we not
function remember the to
order of value need to For
{roll},{name} etc. e.g.
pass.
String template with {} and
format()
String template with {} and
format()
Inserting data in MySQL table
from Python
INSERT and UPDATE operation are executed in
the same way we execute SELECT query using
execute() but one thing to remember, after
executing insert or update query we must commit
our query using connection object with
commit().
For e.g. (if our connection object name is mycon)
mycon.commit()
BEFORE PROGRAM
Example : inserting EXECUTION
data
AFTER PROGRAM
EXECUTION
Example: Updating
record
