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1. MySQLdb Installation

From a thread of Python 3 ImportError: No module named ‘ConfigParser’, I knew that MySQL-python does not currently support Python 3. Therefore I chose MySQLdb as my Python mysql-connector.

The installation commands, as another thread of the above post indicated, are:

sudo apt-get install python3-dev libmysqlclient-dev
sudo pip3 install mysqlclient

2. Tutorials

Python3 mysqlclient-1.3.6 (aka PyMySQL) usage? listed 2 helpful tutorials:

The last one is more enjoyable :-)

3. Password inside Python Code?

con = MySQLdb.connect(host = "localhost", user = "foo", passwd = "bar", db = "baz")

Leaving password in code looks dangerous. However, passing parameter read_default_file="/etc/mysql/my.cnf" could not help maybe because Python has no permission to read my config file.

A safer way to handle this is to create a user with limited privileges:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON db_baz.* To 'user_foo'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'passwd_bar';

See Create new user in MySQL and give it full access to one database for more explanation.

4. PyDev Issue: Unsolvable import of MySQLdb.Error

Even after you import MySQLdb, PyDev would still paste a red cross to any line where MySQLdb.Error is written. However, you can still run your code and try-except block works well.

Some suggestions were given in How do I handle an UnresolvedImport Eclipse (Python). I didn’t try all of them but this one works for me:

  1. Window -> Preferences -> PyDev -> Interpreter - Python
  2. Select the python interpreter in the upper pane
  3. Remove
  4. Advanced Auto Config (I have Python 2 and Python 3 both on my ubuntu; this operation could detect both versions and ask you to choose one)
  5. Agree to everything

It looks like that you need to brutally refresh your building path to include MySQLdb.

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