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description: python code for interacting with db
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# Databases

## Recipes

### psycopg2

**Installation**

`pip install psycopg2`

**Establishing connection**

```python
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```

import psycopg2 try: connection = psycopg2.connect(DATABASE\_URL) cursor = connection.cursor()

```
# Print PostgreSQL Connection properties
print ( connection.get_dsn_parameters(),"\n")
# Print PostgreSQL version
cursor.execute("SELECT version();")
record = cursor.fetchone()
print("You are connected to - ", record,"\n")
```

except (Exception, psycopg2.Error) as error : print ("Error while connecting to PostgreSQL", error) finally:

```
#closing database connection.
    if(connection):
        cursor.close()
        connection.close()
        print("PostgreSQL connection is closed")
```

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