Development Status
- 5 - Production/Stable
Intended Audience
- Developers
- Education
License
- OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Operating System
- MacOS :: MacOS X
- Microsoft :: Windows
- POSIX :: Linux
- Unix
Programming Language
- Python :: 3
- Python :: 3.10
- Python :: 3.11
- Python :: 3.12
- Python :: 3.13
- Python :: 3.14
Topic
- Database
- Software Development
- Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
Typing
- Typed
MySQL Connector/Python enables Python programs to access MySQL databases, using an API that is compliant with the Python Database API Specification v2.0 (PEP 249) - We refer to it as the Classic API.
Features
Installation
Connector/Python contains the classic and XDevAPI connector APIs, which are installed separately. Any of these can be installed from a binary or source distribution.
Binaries are distributed in the following package formats:
On the other hand, the source code is distributed as a compressed file from which a wheel package can be built.
The recommended way to install Connector/Python is via pip, which relies on WHEEL packages. For such a reason, it is the installation procedure that is going to be described moving forward.
Please, refer to the official MySQL documentation Connector/Python Installation to know more about installing from an RPM, or building and installing a WHEEL package from a source distribution.
Before installing a package with pip, it is strongly suggested to have the most recent pip version installed on your system. If your system already has pip installed, you might need to update it. Or you can use the standalone pip installer.
$ pip install mysql-connector-pythonInstallation Options
Connector packages included in MySQL Connector/Python allow you to install optional dependencies to unleash certain functionalities.
# 3rd party packages to unleash the telemetry functionality are installed
$ pip install mysql-connector-python[telemetry]This installation option can be seen as a shortcut to install all the dependencies needed by a particular feature. Mind that this is optional and you are free to install the required dependencies by yourself.
Available options:
dns-srv
gssapi
webauthn
telemetry
Sample Code
import mysql.connector
# Connect to server
cnx = mysql.connector.connect(
host="127.0.0.1",
port=3306,
user="mike",
password="s3cre3t!")
# Get a cursor
cur = cnx.cursor()
# Execute a query
cur.execute("SELECT CURDATE()")
# Fetch one result
row = cur.fetchone()
print("Current date is: {0}".format(row[0]))
# Close connection
cnx.close()Additional Resources
Contributing
There are a few ways to contribute to the Connector/Python code. Please refer to the contributing guidelines for additional information.
License
Please refer to the README.txt and LICENSE.txt files, available in this repository, for further details.
Wheel compatibility matrix
| Platform | CPython 3.10 | CPython 3.11 | CPython 3.12 | CPython 3.13 | CPython 3.14 | Python 2 | Python 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| any | |||||||
| macosx_14_0_arm64 | |||||||
| macosx_14_0_x86_64 | |||||||
| manylinux_2_28_aarch64 | |||||||
| manylinux_2_28_x86_64 | |||||||
| win_amd64 |
