mydb = mysql.connector.connect (host="localhost", user="yourusername", passwd="yourpassword"): This connects to the MySQL database using the specified username and password. mycursor = mydb.cursor ...

The associative array is one of the great computing constructs. Essentially you create an array and index it by value rather than row or column position.

The second parameter represents an associative array of values that corresponds to data fields you wish to update. The method returns a number of the affected rows.