INTERFACE PYTHON

WITH MYSQL
Connecting Python application with
Introducti
on
 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
“[Link]”.
 We can install “[Link]” by using
following methods:
 At command prompt (Administrator login)
 Type “pip install mysql-connector-python” and press enter
 (internet connection in required)
 Or open
[Link]
thon/
and download connector as per OS and Python
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
[Link])
 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
[Link]
import [Link]

Or

import [Link] as ms

Here “ms” is an alias, so every time we can use

“ms” in place of “[Link]”
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 “”
 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

“[Link]”
“mycon” is connection object which stores connection established
“connect()”
with MySQL function is used to connect with mysql by 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 = [Link]()
 For e.g.

 mycursor = [Link]()

 TO EXECUTE QUERY
 We use execute() function to send query to
connection
 Cursor_name.execute(query)
 For e.g.
 [Link]("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. It no more record it will return an
empty tuple.
 rowcount : it will return number of rows
retrieved from the cursor so far.
Example –
fetchall()
Example 2 –
fetchall()
Example 3:
fetchone()
Example 4:
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: dynamic variable in
 Concatenating
to query values are w
entered. hich
 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
values through parameter
format we insidenot {} so
that while passing
function remember need to
theorder of to pass. For
value
{roll},{name} etc. e.g.
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)
 [Link]()
Example : inserting
BEFORE PROGRAM
EXECUTION

data

AFTER PROGRAM
EXECUTION
Example: Updating
record