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. (more…)
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MySQLdb – accessing MySQL databases from Python
Monday, March 24th, 2008Why should I use a database for my data?
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008Quick answer: when you have large amounts of inter-related data.
Long answer: (more…)