On 05/11/11 00:12, John Fabiani wrote:
I'm using psycopg2.
OK - bear in mind, I'm not a Python user.
This is what I'm doing from python
myvarString = "long string that contains single quotes"
cusor.execute("insert into table (pkid, myfield) values (%s, $$%s$$)",(123,
myvarString))
When I execute the above I'm seeing:
E'long string that contains single quotes' in the field. When I do a "select
* from table" I get E'long string that contains single quotes'.
OK, so it seems psycopg is quoting your strings for you (as you'd
expect). It's presumably turning your query into:
... values (E'123', $$E'<long string>'$$)
So - the $$ quoting is unnecessary here - just use the % placeholders.
Incidentally, should it be %s for the numeric argument?
myvarString = "long string that without single quotes"
cusor.execute("insert into table (pkid, myfield) values (%s, %s)",(123,
myvarString))
I get the following:
"long string that without single quotes"
That seems sensible to me (unless there's a typo in your example). You
shouldn't need to quote any of your values in your Python code - it's
doing it for you. I'm guessing there are other options beside %s for
other data-types (integers,floats,boolean etc).
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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