In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to connect your Python application with a MySQL database. You’ll design a movie rating system and perform some common queries on it. You’ll also see best practices and tips to prevent SQL injection attacks.

MySQL is one of the most popular database management systems (DBMSs) on the market today. It ranked second only to the Oracle DBMS in this year’s DB-Engines Ranking. As most software applications need to interact with data in some form, programming languages like Python provide tools for storing and accessing these data sources.

Using the techniques discussed in this tutorial, you’ll be able to efficiently integrate a MySQL database with a Python application. You’ll develop a small MySQL database for a movie rating system and learn how to query it directly from your Python code.

By the end of this tutorial, you’ll be able to:

• Identify unique features of MySQL
• Connect your application to a MySQL database
• Query the database to fetch required data
• Handle exceptions that occur while accessing the database
• Use best practices while building database applications

To get the most out of this tutorial, you should have a working knowledge of Python concepts like for loops, functions, exception handling, and installing Python packages using pip. You should also have a basic understanding of relational database management systems and SQL queries like SELECT, DROP, CREATE, and JOIN.

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