Python MySQL – Drop table
To delete/drop a table in MySQL from a 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 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.
Python Program
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()
CopyOutput
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.