try: conn = MySQLdb.connect (host = 'localhost', user = 'root', passwd = 'pass', db = 'prod', port=3306) cursor1=conn.cursor() cursor1.execute("CALL error_test_proc()") cursor1.close() except MySQLdb.Error, e: print "Mysql Error %d: %s" % (e.args[0], e.args[1])