open_database (
        driver="MySQLdb",
        *args,
        *kwargs,
        )

Main interface for loading a existing BioSQL-style database.

This function is the easiest way to retrieve a connection to a database, doing something like:

>>> from BioSeq import BioSeqDatabase >>> server = BioSeqDatabase.open_database(user = "root", db="minidb")

the various options are: driver -> The name of the database driver to use for connecting. The driver should implement the python DB API. By default, the MySQLdb driver is used. user -> the username to connect to the database with. passwd -> the password to connect with host -> the hostname of the database db -> the name of the database