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MySQL for Python
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MySQL for Python

by Albert Lukaszewski
September 2010
Intermediate to advanced
440 pages
9h 23m
English
Packt Publishing
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Project: A movie database

The project for this chapter involves querying the Sakila database from MySQL.

Note

Sakila is a database of fictitious movies and films.

For this project, we will write a program with the following features:

  • Accepts user input for the name of either a film or an actor
  • Returns the first record for confirmation by the user
  • If the first set of data is confirmed as being what the user wants, the entire set is returned
  • All errors are fatal and result in error messages being passed to the user
  • All warnings are explicitly silenced

Getting Sakila

The Sakila sample database represents the possible tables for a DVD rental store. It is available for download from the MySQL website:

http://downloads.mysql.com/docs/sakila-db.zip

Once you have ...

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