This is MySQL Python programming tutorial. It covers the basics of MySQL programming with Python. It uses the MySQLdb module. The examples were created and tested on Ubuntu Linux.

There is a similar PostgreSQL Python tutorial, MySQL Visual Basic tutorial, or MySQL PHP tutorial on ZetCode. SQLAlchemy tutorial covers SQLAlchemy SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper. If you need to refresh your knowledge of the Python language, there is a full Python tutorial. You may also consider to look at the MySQL tutorial, too.

About MySQL database

MySQL is a leading open source database management system. It is a multi user, multithreaded database management system. MySQL is especially popular on the web. It is one part of the very popular LAMP platform which consists of Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Currently MySQL is owned by Oracle. MySQL database is available on most important OS platforms. It runs on BSD Unix, Linux, Windows, or Mac OS. Wikipedia and YouTube use MySQL. These sites manage millions of queries each day. MySQL comes in two versions: MySQL server system and MySQL embedded system. 继续阅读 →