Steps to reproduce I'm running a local MariaDB server container on localhost and it's configured to allow root logins without a password. Indeed the exception message (Can't connect to local server ...

I have the same issue in the tutorial. (pymysql.err.OperationalError) (2003, "Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' ( [Errno 2] No such file or directory)" Connection fails when deployed to ...

It is very frustrating when you see this ERROR 2002 (HY000) on your terminal when you try to open MySQL.We will share the way to resolve this issue.