MySQL database location

[John Hunter]

>>>>> "Pawel" == Pawel Lewicki <lewy0lewy at poczta.onet.pl> writes:

    Pawel> Hi, Is is possible to get the physical path to the MySQL
    Pawel> database file using MySQLdb or any other pythonous way?

Depending on your platform, you could parse /etc/my.cnf.

for line in open('/etc/my.cnf').readlines():
    if line.find('datadir=')==0:
        dataDir = line[8:-1]

print dataDir