#!/usr/bin/python 
# connect.py - connect to the MySQL server 
import sys
import MySQLdb
try:
    conn = MySQLdb.connect (db = "cookbook", host = "localhost", user = "user", passwd = "passwd", unix_socket="/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock")
    print "Connected"
except MySQLdb.Error,e:
    print "Cannot connect to server"
    print "Error code:",e.args[0]
    print "Error message:", e.args[1]
    sys.exit (1)
conn.close ()
print "Disconnected"