Python mysql (using pymysql) auto reconnect

Well, I've got the same problem in my application and I found a method on the PyMySQL documentation that pings to the server and check if the connection was closed or not, if it was closed, then it reconnects again.

from pymysql import connect
from pymysql.cursors import DictCursor

# create the connection
connection = connect(host='host', port='port', user='user', 
                     password='password', db='db', 
                     cursorclass=DictCursor)

# get the cursor
cursor = connection.cursor()

# if the connection was lost, then it reconnects
connection.ping(reconnect=True)      

# execute the query
cursor.execute(query)

I hope it helps.

Finally got a working solution, might help someone.

from gevent import monkey
monkey.patch_socket()
import logging

import gevent
from gevent.queue import Queue
import pymysql as db

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
LOGGER = logging.getLogger("connection_pool")


class ConnectionPool:
    def __init__(self, db_config, time_to_sleep=30, test_run=False):
        self.username = db_config.get('user')
        self.password = db_config.get('password')
        self.host = db_config.get('host')
        self.port = int(db_config.get('port'))
        self.max_pool_size = 20
        self.test_run = test_run
        self.pool = None
        self.time_to_sleep = time_to_sleep
        self._initialize_pool()

    def get_initialized_connection_pool(self):
        return self.pool

    def _initialize_pool(self):
        self.pool = Queue(maxsize=self.max_pool_size)
        current_pool_size = self.pool.qsize()
        if current_pool_size < self.max_pool_size:  # this is a redundant check, can be removed
            for _ in xrange(0, self.max_pool_size - current_pool_size):
                try:
                    conn = db.connect(host=self.host,
                                      user=self.username,
                                      passwd=self.password,
                                      port=self.port)
                    self.pool.put_nowait(conn)

                except db.OperationalError, e:
                    LOGGER.error("Cannot initialize connection pool - retrying in {} seconds".format(self.time_to_sleep))
                    LOGGER.exception(e)
                    break
        self._check_for_connection_loss()

    def _re_initialize_pool(self):
        gevent.sleep(self.time_to_sleep)
        self._initialize_pool()

    def _check_for_connection_loss(self):
        while True:
            conn = None
            if self.pool.qsize() > 0:
                conn = self.pool.get()

            if not self._ping(conn):
                if self.test_run:
                    self.port = 3306

                self._re_initialize_pool()

            else:
                self.pool.put_nowait(conn)

            if self.test_run:
                break
            gevent.sleep(self.time_to_sleep)

    def _ping(self, conn):
        try:
            if conn is None:
                conn = db.connect(host=self.host,
                                  user=self.username,
                                  passwd=self.password,
                                  port=self.port)
            cursor = conn.cursor()
            cursor.execute('select 1;')
            LOGGER.debug(cursor.fetchall())
            return True

        except db.OperationalError, e:
            LOGGER.warn('Cannot connect to mysql - retrying in {} seconds'.format(self.time_to_sleep))
            LOGGER.exception(e)
            return False

# test (pytest compatible) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
import logging

from src.py.ConnectionPool import ConnectionPool

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
LOGGER = logging.getLogger("test_connection_pool")


def test_get_initialized_connection_pool():
    config = {
        'user': 'root',
        'password': '',
        'host': '127.0.0.1',
        'port': 3305
    }
    conn_pool = ConnectionPool(config, time_to_sleep=5, test_run=True)
    pool = conn_pool.get_initialized_connection_pool()
    # when in test run the port will be switched back to 3306
    # so the queue size should be 20 - will be nice to work 
    # around this rather than test_run hack
    assert pool.qsize() == 20