architjain11 / hospital-management-system

A system written in Python which connects to MySQL and can be used to manage the hospital's work system. Docker environments are used to do the same

Hospital Management System

A system written in Python which connects to MySQL and can be used to manage hospital work.

Installation

Install Docker and start docker engine. The 'docker-compose.yml' when run as shown below will get two docker containers up and running, one with MySQL and one with Python.

docker-compose up -d

The docker containers and their IDs can be viewed by using below cmd.

docker ps

We can access the command prompt of the container using container ID.

docker exec -it <containerID> bash

The two containers communicate between one another using MySQL Connector and the password is entered wherever required using stdiomask library which displays asterisks '*' as password is entered unlike python's built-in getpass library which hides what is entered. Both can be installed in the Python container where we run our script.

pip install mysql-connector-python

pip install stdiomask

In the MySQL container, we can start MySQL using the below cmd.

mysql -u <user> -p <password>

Usage

The 'Code' folder contains the file "system.py" which has our main code and can be executed using below command in the Python container.

python system.py