Rename column name in MySQL using Python

In this article, we are going to see how we can rename or alter the name of a column table using Python. Python allows the integration of a wide range of database servers with applications. A database interface is required to access a database from Python. MySQL Connector-Python module is an API in python for communicating with a MySQL database. 

Approach:

• Import module.
• Make a connection request with the database.
• Create an object for the database cursor.
• Execute the following MySQL query:

ALTER TABLE your_table_name RENAME COLUMN original_column_name TO new_column_name;

Example:

In this example we are using this database table with the following query;

Below is the implementation:

Python3

# Establish connection to MySQL database
import mysql.connector

db = mysql.connector.connect(
  host="localhost",
  user="root",
  password="root123",
  database = "geeks"
  )

#getting the cursor by cursor() method
mycursor = db.cursor()

query = "ALTER TABLE persons RENAME COLUMN PersonID TO Emp_Id;"
mycursor.execute(query)

# close the Connection
db.close()

After running this script, let’s check our tables: