Windows: connector 8.0.11 does not read "option_files" (no replies)

Hi,

I've been having this problem for a while. The Python connector does not understand the "option_files" connection argument. I have the following situation:

I have a development environment and I sometimes want to drop every table in the dev DB and recreate. Because of my hosting provider I can not drop or add a "database from the command line. I wrote the script below to look for and drop the tables in the database though.

import os
import mysql.connector.django

DBI = mysql.connector.connect(
option_files=os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), ".my.cnf"),
option_groups="membersdev"
)

cursorFind = DBI.cursor()
cursorDrop = DBI.cursor()

query = """
select TABLE_NAME
from information_schema.TABLES
where TABLE_SCHEMA = 'dev_devSite_org'
"""
cursorFind.execute(query)

query2 = """
drop table if exists %s
"""

for (tableName) in cursorFind:
print(tableName)
cursorDrop.execute(query2, tableName)

cursorDrop.close()
cursorFind.close()

DBI.close()

This script works fine on the linux dev machine. It fails on Windows. I get the stacktrace:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\Python36\lib\site-packages\mysql\connector\connection_cext.py", line 176, in _open_connection
self._cmysql.connect(**cnx_kwargs)
_mysql_connector.MySQLInterfaceError: Can't connect to MySQL server on '127.0.0.1' (10061)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\JetBrains\PyCharm 2017.3.2\helpers\pydev\pydevd.py", line 1664, in <module>
main()
File "C:\Program Files\JetBrains\PyCharm 2017.3.2\helpers\pydev\pydevd.py", line 1658, in main
globals = debugger.run(setup['file'], None, None, is_module)
File "C:\Program Files\JetBrains\PyCharm 2017.3.2\helpers\pydev\pydevd.py", line 1068, in run
pydev_imports.execfile(file, globals, locals) # execute the script
File "C:\Program Files\JetBrains\PyCharm 2017.3.2\helpers\pydev\_pydev_imps\_pydev_execfile.py", line 18, in execfile
exec(compile(contents+"\n", file, 'exec'), glob, loc)
File "C:/Users/karres/PycharmProjects/CIAMembers/misc_scripts/db_delete.py", line 16, in <module>
option_groups="membersdev"
File "C:\Program Files\Python36\lib\site-packages\mysql\connector\__init__.py", line 148, in connect
return connect(**new_config)
File "C:\Program Files\Python36\lib\site-packages\mysql\connector\__init__.py", line 182, in connect
return CMySQLConnection(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Program Files\Python36\lib\site-packages\mysql\connector\connection_cext.py", line 78, in __init__
self.connect(**kwargs)
File "C:\Program Files\Python36\lib\site-packages\mysql\connector\abstracts.py", line 736, in connect
self._open_connection()
File "C:\Program Files\Python36\lib\site-packages\mysql\connector\connection_cext.py", line 179, in _open_connection
sqlstate=exc.sqlstate)
mysql.connector.errors.DatabaseError: 2003 (HY000): Can't connect to MySQL server on '127.0.0.1' (10061)

It should not be trying to connect to localhost via networking because the config file says to use a socket:


[membersdev]
socket=MySQL
protocol=pipe
user=devsiteorg
password=********
database=dev_site_org

I know that the config file *works* from the windows commend line because I can start the mysql client in a command window and specify the default file. the "client" part of the config file is the same as the one above.