Python MariaDB – Drop Table using PyMySQL

MariaDB is an open source Database Management System and its predecessor to MySQL. The pymysql client can be used to interact with MariaDB similar to that of MySQL using Python.

In this article we will look into the process of Dropping a table from a database using pymysql. To drop a table use any of the below syntax:

Syntax :

DROP TABLE tablename;

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS tablename;

The following programs will help you understand this better.

Example 1 :

Program to demonstrate drop if exists. We will try to drop a table which does not exist in the above database.

Python3

import pymysql

# Create a connection object
# IP address of the MySQL database server
Host = "localhost"

# User name of the database server
User = "user"

# Password for the database user
Password = ""

database = "GFG"

conn  = pymysql.connect(host=Host, user=User, password=Password, database)

# Create a cursor object
cur  = conn.cursor()


query = f"DROP TABLE IF exists Employee"

cur.execute(query)

conn.close()

Output :

• Before

• After

Example 2 : 

Here we will drop the student table.

Python3

import pymysql

# Create a connection object

conn  = pymysql.connect('localhost', 'user', 'password', 'database')

# Create a cursor object
cur  = conn.cursor()


query = f"DROP TABLE IF exists Student"

cur.execute(query)

rows = cur.fetchall()
conn.close()

for row in rows :
    print(row)

Output :

• Before

• After