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I am writing a script in Python and I am using MySQLdb package. 

 con1 = mdb.connect('127.0.0.1', 'root', '', 'teacher') 
 con2 = mdb.connect('127.0.0.1', 'root', '', 'student', true)

I can execute a query using a single cursor in python. But I want to write query to use tables from both the database at once. How can I do that?

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Was looking for an answer to the same question. Found that connecting without specifying the database will allow you to query multiple tables:

db = _mysql.connect('localhost', 'user', 'password')

Then you can query different tables from different databases:

select table1.field1,
       table2.field2
from database1.table1 inner join
     database2.table2 on database2.table2.join_field = database1.field1.join_field

And boom goes the dynamite

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