!sudo pip install PyMySQL #!/usr/bin/env python import pymysql #conn = pymysql.connect(host='127.0.0.1', unix_socket='/tmp/mysql.sock', user='root', passwd=None, db='mysql') conn = pymysql.connect(host='my01.winhost.com', port=3306, user='openworm', passwd='openworm', db='mysql_31129_celegans') cur = conn.cursor() cur.execute("SELECT DISTINCT EnID1 FROM tblrelationship LIMIT 5") # print cur.description # r = cur.fetchall() # print r # ...or... for r in cur.fetchall(): print(r) cur.close() conn.close()