That was great ! Now I am able to insert the values from the file. Somehow I am not able to update a specific field with all the vaues in the file. For eg:
Before the update my table contents are: +-------+-------+ | first | last | +-------+-------+ | Sara | Jones | | Terry | Burns | | Filiz | Khan | +-------+-------+ When I do the update using the following code, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- import MySQLdb, csv, sys conn = MySQLdb.connect (host = "localhost",user = "usr", passwd = "pass",db = "db") c = conn.cursor() csv_data=csv.reader(file("b.txt")) for row in csv_data: print row c.execute("UPDATE a SET last = %s", row) #c.commit() c.close() --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The table contents get updated with the last content of the input file . for eg +-------+------+ | first | last | +-------+------+ | Sara | c | | Terry | c | | Filiz | c | +-------+------+ the contents of the b.txt file: a b c Any kind of help would be greatly appreciated. James On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Gerhard Häring <g...@ghaering.de> wrote: > Schedule wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am currenty using MySQL 5.1 community server and trying to import the > > data of the comma delimited text file into the table using python 2.6 > > scripts. I have installed Mysqldb 1.2.2. > > > > follwoing is my script: > > [...] > > 7. > > c.execute("INSERT INTO a (first, last) VALUES (%s, %s), row") > > [...] > > When I execute the statement I get the following error: > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > [...] > > _mysql_exceptions.ProgrammingError: (1064, "You have an error in your > > SQL syntax; check the manual tha > > t corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use > > near '%s, %s), row' at line 1") > > You misplaced the closing quote. > > wrong: c.execute("INSERT INTO a (first, last) VALUES (%s, %s), row") > correct: c.execute("INSERT INTO a (first, last) VALUES (%s, %s)", row) > > > -- Gerhard > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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