Python MySQLSelect From
Select From a Table
To select from a table in MySQL, use the "SELECT" statement:
Example
Select all records from the "customers" table, and display the result:
mydb = mysql.connector.connect(
host="localhost",
user="yourusername",
password="yourpassword",
database="mydatabase"
)
mycursor = mydb.cursor()
mycursor.execute("SELECT * FROM customers")
myresult = mycursor.fetchall()
for x in myresult:
print(x)
Note: We use thefetchall()
method, which fetches all rows from the last executed statement.
Selecting Columns
To select only some of the columns in a table, use the "SELECT" statement followed by the column name(s):
Example
Select only the name and address columns:
mydb = mysql.connector.connect(
host="localhost",
user="yourusername",
password="yourpassword",
database="mydatabase"
)
mycursor = mydb.cursor()
mycursor.execute("SELECT name, address FROM customers")
myresult = mycursor.fetchall()
for x in myresult:
print(x)
Using the fetchone() Method
If you are only interested in one row, you can use thefetchone()
method.
Thefetchone()
method will return the first row of the result:
Example
Fetch only one row:
mydb = mysql.connector.connect(
host="localhost",
user="yourusername",
password="yourpassword",
database="mydatabase"
)
mycursor = mydb.cursor()
mycursor.execute("SELECT * FROM customers")
myresult = mycursor.fetchone()
print(myresult)