connecting to DBMS

teebes teebes at gmail.com
Tue Jul 1 14:51:29 EDT 2008


On Jul 1, 9:35 am, varun chadha <varun.con... at gmail.com> wrote:
> i am a newbie to python and is working on an application which needs
> to connect to the database. can anyone guide me through the DBMS that
> i can use and the module to connect to it. currently i have MySQL
> installed using the link on the python.org site but is unable to
> connect to it through python. pls specify the link  to the tutorials
> which can guide to connect and execute my query. hopes u understood
> what i meant to say.
> thanks in advance

mysql-python is probably your best bet for MySQL databases
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/

As far as tutorials are concerned, the presentation linked in this
page is very good, given by the creator of the interface Andy Dustman:
http://bogdan.org.ua/2007/09/07/mysql-python-good-mysqldb-tutorial-examples.html
(scroll down to page 7 for the stuff on MySQL).

- Teebes



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