Can't connect to localhost using Python's MySQLdb

I've managed to solve this by setting my host to "127.0.0.1" rather than "localhost".

if your mysql socket is not placed in /tmp/mysql.sock, you can specify it with

conn = MySQLdb.connect (unix_socket = 'path_to_your_socket', host = 'localhost', user = 'erin', passwd = 'erin', db = 'sec')

edit: for mamp on macosx the mysql socket path should be something like /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock

python mysql connect

Your mysql installation probably put the socket somewhere else. You can configure this in your mysql conf files.

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