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planpony69
planpony69

Reputation: 307

AttributeError: module 'mysql' has no attribute 'connector'

I'm running Ubuntu 16.04, trying to connect to mysql in python:

    import mysql
    username = 'root'

    cnx = mysql.connector.connect(user=username, database='db')
    cnx.close()

But I get an error:

    File "pysql1.py", line 4, in <module>
      cnx = mysql.connector.connect(user=username, database='db')
    AttributeError: module 'mysql' has no attribute 'connector'

I installed the mysql python module by downloading the package here. I tried sudo apt-get install python-mysql.connector to no avail. Any pointers?

EDIT: after adding import mysql.connector I got an unrelated permissions error which I've now resolved, so that's what I needed ty lots!!!

Upvotes: 17

Views: 56357

Answers (10)

Ali Sheikhpour
Ali Sheikhpour

Reputation: 11045

If you have installed both mysql-connector and mysql-connector-python:

  1. uninstall mysql-connector-python
  2. uninstall mysql-connector
  3. reinstall mysql-connector-python

If your file are named mysql.py or select.py rename them.

Upvotes: 9

mwolfe 11
mwolfe 11

Reputation: 50

This error occurred for me (even after pip install mysql-connector-python) when attempting to run db = mysql.connector.connect(...) in the Python IDLE Shell. When I switched to a full .py file, it worked correctly with the same code. I assume this has to do with what other users have mentioned about forbidden file names.

I believe if you can run import mysql, check that 'connector' in dir(mysql) == True, and run import mysql.connector without errors, it means that it must be something other than a problem with your mysql-connector-python package, like this.

Upvotes: 0

SHY
SHY

Reputation: 107

I am using python xenv to connect to the mysql outside the virtual env. After trying to fix the error below a lot of times:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/py/p.py", line 5, in <module>
    db_connection = mysql.connector.connect(
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: module 'mysql.connector' has no attribute 'connect'

The issue is finally fixed by upgrading my mac OS system, uninstalling mysql-connector-python and mysql-connector, and reinstalling the mysql-connector-python.

Upvotes: 0

Phil
Phil

Reputation: 371

I had the same problem, but none of the above solutions worked for me. I unfortunately had to try something else. I found out that the package I used wasn't working anymore. It must have been a mix-up, where I upgraded my package and so my script wasn't working anymore.

However, I installed this package: https://pypi.org/project/mysql-connector-python/ and my script is now back up and running.

Upvotes: 0

Mohamed jafir ashraf
Mohamed jafir ashraf

Reputation: 9

Try with this,

import mysql.connector as mysql

connection = mysql.connect(
   host="localhost", user="root", port='3306', database="database_name")

Upvotes: 0

Gerard ONeill
Gerard ONeill

Reputation: 4092

I had "pip install"ed mysql-connector before installing mysql-connector-python. I uninstalled the mysql-connector, and was getting this error.

As this stackoverflow question/answer mentions, uninstalling and then reinstalling the mysql-connector-python had everything working.

Python | MySQL | AttributeError: module 'mysql.connector' has no attribute 'connect'

Upvotes: 4

Leonardo Nunes
Leonardo Nunes

Reputation: 9

The problem was that I created a script called "select.py" I renamed it and it works again.

Upvotes: 0

Surya
Surya

Reputation: 652

One more observation. In many tutorials, they didn't installed the python connector the same way. At those times, the import statement might be the cause of the issue. Try the below import statement.

import mysql.connector as mysql

Upvotes: 2

Gail Sparks
Gail Sparks

Reputation: 111

I was still getting the same error after import mysql.connector and checking permissions. I was running my script on MacOS using bash. After hours of searching for a solution, came across this post on the mysql forums: https://forums.mysql.com/read.php?50,584171,584729#msg-584729

The poster mentions that your python script can't be named mysql.py My script was named types.py, so I renamed it to setup-types.py and that solved my problem. Hopefully this saves others some time when dealing with this same error.

Upvotes: 11

PRMoureu
PRMoureu

Reputation: 13317

The solution is to execute :

import mysql.connector # or from mysql import connector

Because the module connector is only available when you import it explicitly :

import mysql

print(dir(mysql))
>>> ['__builtins__', '__cached__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', 
'__package__', '__path__', '__spec__']

import mysql.connector

print(dir(mysql))
>>> ['__builtins__', '__cached__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', 
'__package__', '__path__', '__spec__', 'connector']

The __init__ file in the module mysql doesn't import the module connector.

mysql
|_______ __init__.py # no import at this level
|_______ connector
         |________ __init__.py

This could work implicitly if connector was imported inside __init__ with : from . import connector.

Upvotes: 19

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