ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) when connecting to MySQL through Python

Question

I have been trying to connect to a MySQL server through Python, using:

try:
    with connect(
        host = "localhost",
        user = "root",
        password = "<password>",
    ) as connection:
        print(connection)
except Error as E:
    print(E)

It then throws the error:

1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

I've tried all the solutions I can find on similar threads but none of them seem to be working and I don't understand what I'm doing wrong. The password is correct and I can login with it to the MySQL Command Line Client.

Answer 1

Thanks to BerndBuffen for linking the docs which helped me figure out the issue I'm experiencing (and everyone else who tried to help).

I realised that my issue is the port default is 3306 and when configuring 3306 was in use, so I changed it to 3307. When I was trying to connect it was attempting to use the wrong port by default, adding --port 3307 solved this.