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#PYTHON CONNECT TO POSTGRESQL HOW TO#

Note: You can do everything we’re about to do with Psycopg2 alone, but SQLAlchemy (which is dependent on Psycopg2) makes things a bit easier when working in python.

Psycopg2 - communicates your SQL statements to your Postgres database.

SQLAlchemy - generates SQL statements from python.

You will also need to install two python packages to connect to your database through your notebook: Check out our other guides if you need help setting up an AWS Redshift or open source PostgreSQL database. If you’ve previously installed Anaconda, you already have Jupyter installed. If you don’t have Jupyter installed on your local machine, you can get it up and running with pip. To start off, you’ll need to have installed Jupyter and set up a Postgres database.

#PYTHON CONNECT TO POSTGRESQL HOW TO#

This article will show you how to connect any PostgreSQL database to a local Jupyter notebook. To follow along, get the Jupyter notebook here.

When connected to remote data sources -such as a Postgres database running on an AWS instance or Panoply’s data warehouse -Jupyter notebooks can become powerful tools for streamlining, documenting and replicating your data analysis workflow. Jupyter allows you to write code, add text and images, analyze data and generate visualizations all in one simple, easy-to-use interface. Jupyter notebooks have quickly become one of the most popular, if not the most popular way, to write and share code in the data science and analytics community.