#! /usr/bin/env python """ import """ import MySQLdb """ connecting """ db = MySQLdb.connect(user="se4_2006", passwd="return", db="se4_2006") """ create a cursor """ cursor = db.cursor() class Dataclass: def usernameExists(self, user): cursor.execute("SELECT * FROM E_Users WHERE username = %s", user) users = cursor.fetchone() print users cursor.execute("SELECT * FROM E_Events WHERE eventID = %s", user) events = cursor.fetchone() print events return (users != None) | (events != None) def getAccount(self, user): if self.usernameExists(user): cursor.execute("SELECT password FROM E_Accounts WHERE username = %s", user) result = cursor.fetchone() print result[0] else: print 'error: user does not exist' x = Dataclass() bool = x.usernameExists('kmollema') print bool bool = x.usernameExists('papa') print bool x.getAccount('kmollema') x.getAccount('papa')