MySQL
Let’s learn how MySQL can be used.
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MySQL is a very popular open source database backend. We can connect to it with Python in several different ways.
For example, we could connect to it using one of the ODBC methods we mentioned in the previous lessons.
One of the most popular ways to connect to MySQL with Python
is the MySQLdb package. There are actually a couple of variants of this
package:
MySQLdb1MySQLdb2moist
The first is the traditional way to connect to MySQL with Python. However, its development is just now in maintenance and won’t ...