HMS Surprise wrote:
Greetings,
I need to peform some simple queries via MySQL. Searching the list I
see that folks are accessing it with python. I am very new to python
and pretty new to MySQL too. Would appreciate it if you could point me
to some documentation for accessing MySQL via python. Something of the
"Python and MySQL for Dummies" caliber would be about my speed, but of
course I will be thankful for anything offered.
Thanks,
jvh
There's even another approach:
If you're on Linux, Qt3 may be available. Install its Python-bindings. Given
a database "MyDatabase", with password "MyPassword" for user "root" and
inside the database a table "MyTable", you can then do something like this:
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#!/usr/bin/env python
from qt import *
import sys
from qtsql import QSqlDatabase, QSqlQuery
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
DB = QSqlDatabase("QMYSQL3", "MyDatabase", app)
DB.setDatabaseName("MyDatabase")
DB.setUserName("root")
DB.setPassword("MyPassword")
DB.setHostName("localhost")
DB.open()
c = DB.execStatement("select * from MyTable")
while c.next():
print c.value(0).toString()
print c.value(1).toString()
print c.value(2).toString()
print c.value(3).toString()
c.first()
c2 = DB.execStatement("select count(*) from MyTable")
c2.next()
print c2.value(0).toString()
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Some further documentation:
http://www.arl.hpc.mil/ice/Manuals/PyQt/t1.html http://doc.trolltech.com/4.2/database.html
H.
