How to retrieve table names in a mysql database with Python and MySQLdb?
I have an SQL database and am wondering what command you use to just get a l开发者_开发百科ist of the table names within that database.
To be a bit more complete:
import MySQLdb
connection = MySQLdb.connect(
host = 'localhost',
user = 'myself',
passwd = 'mysecret') # create the connection
cursor = connection.cursor() # get the cursor
cursor.execute("USE mydatabase") # select the database
cursor.execute("SHOW TABLES") # execute 'SHOW TABLES' (but data is not returned)
now there are two options:
tables = cursor.fetchall() # return data from last query
or iterate over the cursor:
for (table_name,) in cursor:
print(table_name)
SHOW tables
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show tables
will help. Here is the documentation.
It is also possible to obtain tables from a specific scheme with execute the single query with the driver below.
python3 -m pip install PyMySQL
import pymysql
# Connect to the database
conn = pymysql.connect(host='127.0.0.1',user='root',passwd='root',db='my_database')
# Create a Cursor object
cur = conn.cursor()
# Execute the query: To get the name of the tables from a specific database
# replace only the my_database with the name of your database
cur.execute("SELECT table_name FROM information_schema.tables WHERE table_schema = 'my_database'")
# Read and print tables
for table in [tables[0] for tables in cur.fetchall()]:
print(table)
output:
my_table_name_1
my_table_name_2
my_table_name_3
...
my_table_name_x
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