How to Call SQL Query from Python

Python's top supported database is MySQL. You can run SQL queries from Python. Here're best examples of how to connect to MYSQL and access MYSQL tables from Python.

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Here are Steps

1. Import MySQL connecter
2. Give user id, password details
3. Issue SQL query

Python Logic to import MySQL connector

import mysql.connector

Note: If the MySQL connecter not installed in python, you need to install it using the below command.

pip3 install mysql-connector-python --allow-external mysql-connector-python

Supply user id and Password

conn=mysql.connector.connect(user='root', password='password', host='localhost', database='sakila')



mycursor=conn.cursor()

Issue SQL Query

mycursor.execute("show tables") # you won't see any result. You need to give print.


print(mycursor.fetchall())

mycursor.execute("select * from customer") # you won't see any result. You need to give print.


print(mycursor.fetchall())


This way you can issue SQL queries in Python.

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