How to reconnect to the database after die?

Question

MySQL

Good evening. There is here such connection to a DB. If you manually kill (kill), then how then to reconnect to it?

def __init__(self):
        ''' creates a connection at the initialization moment
        and also a cursor used later '''
        connct = False
        while connct != True:
            try:
                # creates a connection
                self.conn = MySQLdb.connect(  host = self.dbhost,
                                            port = self.dbport,
                                            user = self.dbuser,
                                            passwd = self.dbpass
                                        )
                self.cursor = self.conn.cursor()
                connct = True
            except MySQLdb.Error, e:
                print "Error %d: %s" % (e.args[0], e.args[1])
                time.sleep(5)
                connct = False