Prerequisite: Python: MySQL Create Table

In this article, we are going to see how to add a new enum column to an existing MySQL 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. 

Database table in use:

We are going to use geeks(Database name) database and table describing the salary.

Approach:

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

ALTER TABLE table_name ADD colunm_name  ENUM('field1','field2',...)

• And print the result.

Below is the implementation with python:

# Establish connection to MySQL database
import mysql.connector

db = mysql.connector.connect(
  host = "localhost",
  user = "root",
  password = "rot23",
  database = "geeks"
  )

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

query = "ALTER TABLE store ADD Department  ENUM('Sweet','Snaks');"

mycursor.execute(query)

mycursor.execute(" desc store;") 
myresult = mycursor.fetchall() 
for row in myresult: 
    print(row)
    
db.commit() 

# close the Connection
db.close()

Output:

Let's check on SQL shell: