open_database(driver='MySQLdb',
**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. password, passwd -> the password to
connect with host -> the hostname of the database database or db
-> the name of the database
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