MySQL is a popular open-source database engine, and Python interfaces quite nicely with MySQL with the MySQLdb package. For more on why you would want to use a database for your data, check out this post. Here I’ll show you how to connect to your existing MySQL database with Python. Continue reading ‘MySQLdb – accessing MySQL databases from Python’
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