get_connection | Teradata Python Package - get_connection - Teradata Package for Python

Teradata® Package for Python User Guide

Deployment
VantageCloud
VantageCore
Edition
Enterprise
IntelliFlex
VMware
Product
Teradata Package for Python
Release Number
20.00
Published
March 2025
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Product Category
Teradata Vantage

The get_connection function returns the Vantage connection associated with the current context.

Example

Create a context using username and password.

>>> from teradataml.context.context import *
>>> from teradataml.dataframe.dataframe import DataFrame
>>> create_context(host = "myhostname", username="myusername", password = "mypassword")

Get the connection object.

>>> get_connection()
<sqlalchemy.engine.base.Connection at 0x258d86cd470>