The library exists to connect you to cloudant, which is a remote service. :)
B. On 20 Mar 2014, at 16:31, Ramanadham, Radhika <radhika.ramanad...@emc.com> wrote: > Hi guys, > I have a dumb question. > > Now with cloudant, how do I connect to my couchDB server > (http://localhost:5984) with no username and password? > > All the examples I see connect to cloudant and not couchDB. How do I connect > to http://127.0.0.1:5984/ > > import cloudant > > # connect to your account > # in this case, https://garbados.cloudant.com > USERNAME = 'garbados' > account = cloudant.Account(USERNAME, async=True) > > # login, so we can make changes > future = account.login(USERNAME, PASSWORD) > # block until we get the response body > login = future.result() > assert login.status_code == 200 > > Thanks, > Radhika