Question

I am trying to connect MySQLdb to MySQL. It was working fine when when my server was localhost and port 80. But due to some reason I had to change the port to 8080. Now how do I specify the port in the connect command?
This is what I was using earlier:

db = MySQLdb.connect(host = "localhost", user = "root", passwd = "", db = "pymysql")

Now my server is “localhost:8080”. So where should I give the information regarding this port?
I tried this :

db = MySQLdb.connect(host = "127.0.0.1:8080", user = "root", passwd = "", db = "pymysql")

This is what I got :

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#4>", line 1, in <module>
db = MySQLdb.connect(host = "127.0.0.1:8080", user = "root", passwd = "", db = "pymysql")
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\MySQLdb\__init__.py", line 81, in Connect
return Connection(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\MySQLdb\connections.py", line 187, in __init__
super(Connection, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs2)
OperationalError: (2005, "Unknown MySQL server host '127.0.0.1:8080' (11004)")

Please Help !!!

Answer 1

You should read the documentation.

connect(parameters...)


    host
        name of host to connect to. Default: use the local host via a UNIX socket (where applicable)
    user
        user to authenticate as. Default: current effective user.
    passwd
        password to authenticate with. Default: no password.
    db
        database to use. Default: no default database.
    port
        TCP port of MySQL server. Default: standard port (3306).