CentOS 7 install mysql connector for python3.6

CentOS 7 install mysql connector for python3.6

Go to website

https://pypi.org/project/mysqlclient/#files

and download the file

mysqlclient-1.3.12.tar.gz

place in /root dir

Now from server console as root user (or su)

cd /root

gzip -d mysqlclient-1.3.12.tar.gz

tar -xvf mysqlclient-1.3.12.tar

cd /root/mysqlclient-1.3.12

yum install -y mariadb-devel

python3.6 setup.py build

python3.6 setup.py install

Now in py script

#!/usr/bin/python3.6

import MySQLdb

# Open database connection
db = MySQLdb.connect("localhost","testuser","test123","TESTDB" )

# prepare a cursor object using cursor() method
cursor = db.cursor()

# execute SQL query using execute() method.
cursor.execute("SELECT VERSION()")

# Fetch a single row using fetchone() method.
data = cursor.fetchone()
print ("Database version : %s " % data)

# disconnect from server
db.close()

If you use this in a web browser

#!/usr/bin/python3.6
import os
import cgi
import MySQLdb

# Set content typr for web browser use
print ("Content-type: text/html\n")

# Open database connection
db = MySQLdb.connect("localhost","root","password","information_schema" )

# prepare a cursor object using cursor() method
cursor = db.cursor()

# execute SQL query using execute() method.
cursor.execute("SELECT VERSION()")

# Fetch a single row using fetchone() method.
data = cursor.fetchone()
print ("Database version : %s " % data)

# disconnect from server
db.close()