[ themattreid ]

If you’ve been looking for a simple python script to use with MySQL that you can use to expand upon for your next project, check this one out. It has error handling for the connection, error handling for the sql call, and loop iteration for the rows returned.

#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
import MySQLdb

my_host = "localhost"
my_user = "user"
my_pass = "password"
my_db = "test"

try:
    db = MySQLdb.connect(host=my_host, user=my_user, passwd=my_pass, db=my_db)
except MySQLdb.Error, e:
     print "Error %d: %s" % (e.args[0], e.args[1])
     sys.exit (1)

cursor = db.cursor()
sql = "select column1, column2 from table";
cursor.execute(sql)    
results = cursor.fetchall()
for row in results:
    column1 = row[0]
    column2 = row[1]
    print "column1: %s, column2: %s"%(column1,column2)

db.close()