Drop Table in Python MySQL

Python MySQL – Drop table

To delete/drop a table in MySQL from a Python program,

1. Create a connection to the MySQL database with user credentials and database name, using connect() function.
2. Get cursor object to the database using cursor() function.
3. Call execute() function on the cursor object, and pass the DROP table query with the old table name as argument. The DROP table query deletes the table from the database.

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 drop the fruits table from the database.

import mysql.connector

mydb = mysql.connector.connect(
  host="localhost",
  user="root",
  password="admin1234",
  database="mydatabase"
)

mycursor = mydb.cursor()

try:
  mycursor.execute("DROP TABLE fruits")
  print('Table dropped successfully.')
except:
  print('An exception occurred while dropping table.')

mydb.commit()

Output

Table dropped successfully.

Database before Dropping Table

Database after Dropping Table

Summary

In this tutorial of Python Examples, we learned how to drop a table from database in MySQL, from a Python program.