I tried creating a SSH tunnel using

ssh -L 3306:localhost:22 <hostip>

Then running my python script to connect via localhost

conn = MySQLdb.connect(host'localhost', port=3306, user='bob', passwd='na', db='test')

However, I receive the following error

(2002, "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)")

How can I make sure I'm hitting the correct host and not just some problem with the bind?

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