Delete Rows from Table based on Condition in Python MySQL
Python MySQL - Delete rows from table based on condition
To delete rows from a MySQL table based on a condition in Python program,
- Create a connection to the MySQL database with user credentials and database name, using connect() function.
- Get cursor object to the database using cursor() function.
- Call execute() function on the cursor object, and pass the DELETE FROM table query with WHERE clause. The WHERE clause specifies the condition based on which we need to delete the rows.
Example
Consider that there is a schema named mydatabase
in MySQL. The credentials to access this database are, user: root
and password: admin1234
, and there is a table named fruits
in mydatabase
.
In the following program, we delete the rows from fruits
table where country
equals Mexico
.
Python Program
import mysql.connector
mydb = mysql.connector.connect(
host="localhost",
user="root",
password="admin1234",
database="mydatabase"
)
mycursor = mydb.cursor()
try:
mycursor.execute("DELETE FROM fruits WHERE country='Mexico'")
print('Rows are successfully deleted.')
except:
print('An exception occurred while deleting rows.')
mydb.commit()
Output
Rows are successfully deleted.
Table data after DELETE operation
Summary
In this tutorial of Python Examples, we learned how to delete rows from a table based on a condition, from a Python program.