import pyhs2

 with pyhs2.connect(host='localhost',
               port=10000,
               authMechanism="PLAIN",
               user='user',
               password='user-pass',
               database='default') as conn:
   with conn.cursor() as cur:
        #Show databases
        print cur.getDatabases()

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "hiveConnect.py", line 8, in <module>
   database='default') as conn:
 File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pyhs2/__init__.py", line 7, in connect
   return Connection(*args, **kwargs)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pyhs2/connections.py", line 46, in __init__
   transport.open()
 File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pyhs2/cloudera/thrift_sasl.py", line 55, in open
   self._trans.open()
 File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/thrift/transport/TSocket.py", line 101, in open
   message=message)
 thrift.transport.TTransport.TTransportException: Could not connect to localhost:10000