Hoe tabelnamen ophalen in een mysql-database met Python en MySQLdb?

Om wat completer te zijn:

import MySQLdb

connection = MySQLdb.connect(
                host = 'localhost',
                user = 'myself',
                passwd = 'mysecret')  # create the connection

cursor = connection.cursor()     # get the cursor


cursor.execute("USE mydatabase") # select the database

cursor.execute("SHOW TABLES")    # execute 'SHOW TABLES' (but data is not returned)

nu zijn er twee opties:

tables = cursor.fetchall()       # return data from last query

of herhaal de cursor:

 for (table_name,) in cursor:
        print(table_name)