在终端上执行以下命令安装mysql connector:

pip install mysql-connector-python

在你的python编辑器中运行这个来连接MySQL:

import mysql.connector

mydb = mysql.connector.connect(
      host="localhost",
      user="username",
      passwd="password",
      database="database_name"
)

执行MySQL命令的示例(在python编辑器中):

mycursor = mydb.cursor()
mycursor.execute("CREATE TABLE customers (name VARCHAR(255), address VARCHAR(255))")    
mycursor.execute("SHOW TABLES")

mycursor.execute("INSERT INTO customers (name, address) VALUES ('John', 'Highway 21')")    
mydb.commit() # Use this command after insert, update, delete commands

更多命令:https://www.w3schools.com/python/python_mysql_getstarted.asp

对于较新版本的Python (>=3.6)

使用mysqlclient或pymysql(推荐)。

对于较旧版本的Python (<3.7, 2.4 <= Python <= 2.7)

如果您正在使用较旧版本的Python(不幸的是)，那么您也可以尝试-> oursql。

但是请注意，该项目不再维护，错误修复也不会推送。

作为一个db驱动程序，还有oursql。这个链接列出了一些原因，说明了为什么oursql更好:

oursql有真正的参数化，将SQL和数据完全分开发送到MySQL。

Oursql允许文本或二进制数据流进数据库和流出数据库，而不是要求所有内容都缓冲在客户端。 Oursql既可以惰性地插入行，也可以惰性地获取行。 Oursql默认支持unicode。 oursql支持python 2.4到2.7，在2.6+上没有任何弃用警告(见PEP 218)，在2.7上也没有完全失败(见PEP 328)。 Oursql在python 3.x上本机运行。

那么如何连接mysql与oursql?

与mysqldb非常相似:

import oursql

db_connection = oursql.connect(host='127.0.0.1',user='foo',passwd='foobar',db='db_name')
cur=db_connection.cursor()
cur.execute("SELECT * FROM `tbl_name`")
for row in cur.fetchall():
    print row[0]

文档中的教程相当不错。

当然，对于ORM来说，SQLAlchemy是一个很好的选择，正如已经在其他答案中提到的那样。

这里有一种方法，使用MySQLdb，它只支持Python 2:

#!/usr/bin/python
import MySQLdb

# Connect
db = MySQLdb.connect(host="localhost",
                     user="appuser",
                     passwd="",
                     db="onco")

cursor = db.cursor()

# Execute SQL select statement
cursor.execute("SELECT * FROM location")

# Commit your changes if writing
# In this case, we are only reading data
# db.commit()

# Get the number of rows in the resultset
numrows = cursor.rowcount

# Get and display one row at a time
for x in range(0, numrows):
    row = cursor.fetchone()
    print row[0], "-->", row[1]

# Close the connection
db.close()

参考这里

SqlAlchemy

SQLAlchemy是Python SQL工具包和对象关系映射器 为应用程序开发人员提供了SQL的全部功能和灵活性。 SQLAlchemy提供了一个完整的著名企业级套件 持久性模式，为高效和高性能而设计 数据库访问，改编成简单的python域语言。

安装

pip install sqlalchemy

原始查询

from sqlalchemy import create_engine
from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker, scoped_session

engine = create_engine("mysql://<user_name>:<password>@<host_name>/<db_name>")
session_obj = sessionmaker(bind=engine)
session = scoped_session(session_obj)

# insert into database
session.execute("insert into person values(2, 'random_name')")
session.flush()
session.commit()

蠕虫方式

from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, String
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
from sqlalchemy import create_engine
from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker, scoped_session

Base = declarative_base()
engine = create_engine("mysql://<user_name>:<password>@<host_name>/<db_name>")
session_obj = sessionmaker(bind=engine)
session = scoped_session(session_obj)

# Bind the engine to the metadata of the Base class so that the
# declaratives can be accessed through a DBSession instance
Base.metadata.bind = engine

class Person(Base):
    __tablename__ = 'person'
    # Here we define columns for the table person
    # Notice that each column is also a normal Python instance attribute.
    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
    name = Column(String(250), nullable=False)

# insert into database
person_obj = Person(id=12, name="name")
session.add(person_obj)
session.flush()
session.commit()

首先安装驱动程序

pip install MySQL-python   

然后一个基本代码是这样的:

#!/usr/bin/python
import MySQLdb

try:
    db = MySQLdb.connect(host="localhost",      # db server, can be a remote one 
                     db="mydb"                  # database
                     user="mydb",               # username
                     passwd="mydb123",          # password for this username
                     )        

    # Create a Cursor object
    cur = db.cursor()

    # Create a query string. It can contain variables
    query_string = "SELECT * FROM MY_TABLE"

    # Execute the query
    cur.execute(query_string)

    # Get all the rows present the database
    for each_row in cur.fetchall():
        print each_row

    # Close the connection
    db.close()
except Exception, e:
    print 'Error ', e 

首先安装驱动程序(Ubuntu)

Sudo apt-get install python-pip sudo pip install -U pip Sudo apt-get install python-dev libmysqlclient-dev sudo apt-get install MySQL-python

MySQL数据库连接代码

import MySQLdb
conn = MySQLdb.connect (host = "localhost",user = "root",passwd = "pass",db = "dbname")
cursor = conn.cursor ()
cursor.execute ("SELECT VERSION()")
row = cursor.fetchone ()
print "server version:", row[0]
cursor.close ()
conn.close ()