How to create a database in MySQL using Python
Hello Python programmers, in this tutorial, we are going to learn how to create a database in MySQL using Python. Before jumping to the discussion on how to create MySQL database in Python, I would like to show you which Connector we are going to use and how to install it.
I am going to use MySQL Connector/Python. If you know this jump to the Python program directly.
Or you can learn How to install MySQL Connector in Python
Then I can assume that you know how to How to Connect MySQL with Python
If you don’t know don’t panic or don’t worry as the above-mentioned tutorial are so much easy that you can understand those kinds of stuff within a few minutes.
Create a database in MySQL using Python
Follow these steps:
- Run your MySQL Server. ( If you are using XAMPP then start Apache and MySQL from XAMPP Control panel otherwise use cmd to start MySQL server )
- Use the below Python Program to create a database in MySQL
Python Program to create database in MySQL
At the top of our program, we have imported mysql.connector
import mysql.connector db_connection = mysql.connector.connect( host="localhost", user="username_here", passwd="password_here", ) my_database = db_connection.cursor() my_database.execute("CREATE DATABASE MY_TEST_DB")
If you run this program and get no errors in the output that means everything is fine.
A database with name MY_TEST_DB will be created successfully.
here,
- host is a variable to store the hostname. Generally, the hostname for the local server is localhost or 127.0.0.1
- user is a variable to store the username of your MySQL server.
- passwd is a variable to store the password of your MySQL server.
execute() function accept the MySQL statements as parameter.
To create a database in MySQL the statement is:
create database name_of_your_database
With the help of the MySQL Connector/Python we can use all acceptable MySQL statements in our Python program.
Also, learn,
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