Processing a MySQL Dump file with Python

[Jeffrey Froman]

Nico Grubert wrote:

> can I somehow call the MySQL interpreter in background to pass the dump
> file to it so the SQL Dump is imported in order
> to write the tables and data into the MySQL database?

Sure, that's what dump files are good for. Simply pipe the contents of the
file into a mysql command. On a Unix-type system (maybe Windows too, I
wouldn't know) you'd run something like:

mysql -h myhost.com -p -u myusername < dumpfile

MySQL does all this by itself, no Python required.

Hope that helps,
Jeffrey