Error: Failed parsing handshake; end byte not precent in buffer (-1)

[Beth Hartman]

Using Python 3.2 and the MYSQL Connector for Windows, I get this error attempting to connect to a specific database.

Ths code I'm using:

try:
	self.db = mysql.connector.connect(host='localhost', user='root',
	password='blah', database='env')
	self.db.autocommit = True
except mysql.connector.Error as e:
	print("\n\nError: "+e.msg+" ("+str(e.errno)+")")

Note that this exact code will connect just fine to a different dtabase, on the same server, with the same user and password.

I thought it might be because I was attempting to connect to two different databases, so I commented out the first (working) database connection entirely, and I'm still getting this error, so it seems to just have a problem with this specific database.

Also note the typo in the error message: 'precent'

In order to give you a stack trace, I took out the try/except:

 C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\mysql\connector\connection.py in connect(self=<mysql.connector.connection.MySQLConnection object>, **kwargs={'database': 'env', 'host': 'localhost', 'password': 'blah', 'user': 'root'})
    330 
    331         self.disconnect()
=>  332         self._open_connection()
    333         self._post_connection()
    334     
self = <mysql.connector.connection.MySQLConnection object>, self._open_connection = <bound method MySQLConnection._open_connection o...sql.connector.connection.MySQLConnection object>>

 C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\mysql\connector\connection.py in _open_connection(self=<mysql.connector.connection.MySQLConnection object>)
    291         self._socket = self._get_connection()
    292         self._socket.open_connection()
=>  293         self._do_handshake()
    294         if self._client_flags & ClientFlag.SSL:
    295             self._socket.set_ssl(self._ssl['ca'], self._ssl['cert'],
self = <mysql.connector.connection.MySQLConnection object>, self._do_handshake = <bound method MySQLConnection._do_handshake of <mysql.connector.connection.MySQLConnection object>>

 C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\mysql\connector\connection.py in _do_handshake(self=<mysql.connector.connection.MySQLConnection object>)
    121         except Exception as err:
    122             raise errors.InterfaceError(
=>  123                 'Failed parsing handshake; {}'.format(err))
    124 
    125         regex_ver = re.compile(b"^(\d{1,2})\.(\d{1,2})\.(\d{1,3})(.*)")
err undefined

InterfaceError: Failed parsing handshake; end byte not precent in buffer
      args = ()
      errno = -1
      msg = 'Failed parsing handshake; end byte not precent in buffer'
      sqlstate = None
      with_traceback = <built-in method with_traceback of InterfaceError object>