Decrypt and parse MySQL's login path file.
See also: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/mysql-config-editor.html
$ pip install myloginpath
Create login path file with mysql_config_editor command:
$ mysql_config_editor set --login-path=client --host=localhost --user=localuser --password Enter password: <Type password here>
Use it from Python:
import myloginpath, MySQLdb conf = myloginpath.parse('client') print(conf) # {'host': 'localhost', 'user': 'localuser', 'password': 'secretstring'} conn = MySQLdb.connect(**conf, database="myapp")