Python Data Access Tutorial

Python is a general-purpose interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, and high-level programming language. It was created by Guido van Rossum during 1985-1990. Like Perl, Python source code is also available under the GNU General Public License (GPL). This tutorial gives enough understanding on Python programming language. It provides various modules to communicate with various databases. In this tutorial, we are going to discuss python modules to communicate with the databases MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite and, MongoDB.

Audience

This tutorial is designed for python programmers who would like to understand the mysql-connector-python, psycog2, Python sqlite3 module and, pymongo modules in detail.

Prerequisites

Before proceeding with this tutorial, you should have a good understanding of python programming language. It is also recommended to have basic understanding of the databases - MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MongoDB.