With aColumn = "Topics.Topic1"'
The first statement "works" in the sense that it finds a number of matching rows. c.execute ("SELECT Author, Quote, ID, Topics.Topic1, Topic2 FROM QUOTES7 WHERE " + aColumn + " LIKE ?", ("%" + sys.argv[1] + "%",)) I've tried about 20 different variations on this next one. And it finds 0 records no matter what I do. Is there some violation when I use two qmarks? c.execute ("SELECT Author, Quote, ID, Topics.Topic1, Topic2 FROM QUOTES7 WHERE ? LIKE ?", (aColumn, "%" + sys.argv[1] + "%")) I'm using mx.ODBC and Python 2.4.3 to connect to an MS Access DB. Thank you, rd -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list