Question

Wondering if there is a way to use a python script to attempt a connection to a group mysql database hosts? Ideally there would be X number of hosts and it would try connecting to each, then fail if no connection could be made. I do not believe MySQLdb.connect is capable of handling multiple hosts, maybe I am wrong.

Answer 1

mysqldb.connect is perfectly ok with connecting to multiple hosts:

try:
    conn1 = mysqldb.connect(...)
    conn2 = mysqldb.connect(...)
    ...
except:  # add specific exception here
    ...  # support failure when connecting