Getting Started

Installation

pymonetdb is available on PyPI and can be installed with the following command:

$ pip install pymonetdb

It can also be installed from its source directory by running:

$ python setup.py install

Connecting

In its simplest form, the function pymonetdb.connect() takes a single parameter, the database name:

conn = pymonetdb.connect('demo')

Usually, you have to pass more:

conn = pymonetdb.connect(
  'demo',
  hostname='dbhost', port=50001,
  username='yours', password='truly')

There are also some options you can set, for example autocommit=True.

It is also possible to combine everything in a URL:

url = 'mapi:monetdb://yours:truly@dbhost:50001/demo?autocommit=true'
conn = pymonetdb.connect(url)

For more details see the documentation of pymonetdb.connect().