How to check if a MySQL connection is open in Python?

Question

I am using MySQLdb (http://mysql-python.sourceforge.net/). It seems that connection.open and connection.sqlstate() do not work for me. Below is the code:

def open(self):
    #TODO: check the connection's status
    # self.__conn.open OR self.__conn.sqlstate()
    try:
        print "sqlstate:"+str( self.__conn.sqlstate() )
        print "open?"+str( self.__conn.open )
        return "00000" == self.__conn.sqlstate()
    except Exception as e:
        print "Exception while checking MYSQL Connection:"+str(e) 
        return False

But when I ran "sudo service mysql stop; sleep 60; sudo service mysql start;" to do the testing. The output is as following. It seems that the following piece of output repeated for ever (I killed the process finally). When the server is down, connection.open is 1 and connection.sqlstate() is 00000. But when server is up, connection.executemany() still throw exceptions. Any ideas? Thanks.

...
    2015-10-20 14:09:06 Exception while executing statement:(2006, 'MySQL server has gone away')
    2015-10-20 14:09:06 sqlstate:00000
    2015-10-20 14:09:06 open?1
    2015-10-20 14:09:06 Reconnected to MYSQL.
    2015-10-20 14:09:06 Exception while executing statement:(2006, 'MySQL server has gone away')
    2015-10-20 14:09:06 sqlstate:00000
    2015-10-20 14:09:06 open?1
    2015-10-20 14:09:06 Reconnected to MYSQL.
    2015-10-20 14:09:06 Exception while executing statement:(2006, 'MySQL server has gone away')
    2015-10-20 14:09:06 sqlstate:00000
    2015-10-20 14:09:06 open?1
    2015-10-20 14:09:06 Reconnected to MYSQL.
    2015-10-20 14:09:06 Exception while executing statement:(2006, 'MySQL server has gone away')
    2015-10-20 14:09:06 sqlstate:00000
    2015-10-20 14:09:06 open?1
...

UPDATE

I tested again. The output is as following. each sleep is 10 seconds. The output is OK except the connection.open is 1 even when server is down. But connection.sqlstate() is right (HY000).

 2015-10-20 14:35:56 Exception while executing statement:(2006, 'MySQL server has gone away')
2015-10-20 14:35:56 Exception while ping:(2003, "Can't connect to MySQL server on '10.1.1.25' (111)")
2015-10-20 14:35:56 sqlstate:HY000
2015-10-20 14:35:56 open?1
2015-10-20 14:35:56 sleeping...
2015-10-20 14:36:06 Exception while ping:(2003, "Can't connect to MySQL server on '10.1.1.25' (111)")
2015-10-20 14:36:06 sqlstate:HY000
2015-10-20 14:36:06 open?1
2015-10-20 14:36:06 sleeping...
2015-10-20 14:36:16 Exception while ping:(2003, "Can't connect to MySQL server on '10.1.1.25' (111)")
2015-10-20 14:36:16 sqlstate:HY000
2015-10-20 14:36:16 open?1
2015-10-20 14:36:16 sleeping...
2015-10-20 14:36:26 Exception while ping:(2003, "Can't connect to MySQL server on '10.1.1.25' (111)")
2015-10-20 14:36:26 sqlstate:HY000
2015-10-20 14:36:26 open?1
2015-10-20 14:36:26 sleeping...
2015-10-20 14:36:36 Exception while ping:(2003, "Can't connect to MySQL server on '10.1.1.25' (111)")
2015-10-20 14:36:36 sqlstate:HY000
2015-10-20 14:36:36 open?1
2015-10-20 14:36:36 sleeping...
2015-10-20 14:36:46 Exception while ping:(2003, "Can't connect to MySQL server on '10.1.1.25' (111)")
2015-10-20 14:36:46 sqlstate:HY000
2015-10-20 14:36:46 open?1
2015-10-20 14:36:46 sleeping...
2015-10-20 14:36:56 Exception while ping:(2003, "Can't connect to MySQL server on '10.1.1.25' (111)")
2015-10-20 14:36:56 sqlstate:HY000
2015-10-20 14:36:56 open?1
2015-10-20 14:36:56 sleeping...
2015-10-20 14:37:06 sqlstate:00000
2015-10-20 14:37:06 open?1
2015-10-20 14:37:06 Reconnected to MYSQL.

Answer 1

You can check the connection with the is_connected method with this library python-mysql:

cnx = connector.connect(user="user",password="pass",host="host",database="database")

if (cnx.is_connected()):
    print("Connected")
else:
    print("Not connected")