On Monday, 14 May 2012 17:01:49 UTC+1, Steve Sawyer wrote: > Brand-new to Python (that's a warning, folks) > > Trying to write a routine to import a CSV file into a SQL Server > table. To ensure that I convert the data from the CSV appropriately, > I"m executing a query that gives me the schema (data column names, > data types and sizes) from the target table. > > What I think I want to do is to construct a dictionary using the > column names as the index value, and a list containing the various > attributes (data type, lenghth, precision). > > If this is NOT a good approach (or if there is a better approach), > please issue a dope-slap, ignore the rest of this post and set me > straight. > > If this is a good approach, I ran into a problem populating the > dictionary as I couldn't seem to figure out how to make the update() > method work by passing the name property of the row object; I kept > getting a "keyword can't be an expression" error. > > What I was able to make work was to construct the command as a string > and run exec( > ), but seems there shoudl be a more > direct way of updating the dictionary. > > TIA.
Could you provide some demo code? Something minimal but runnable, which results in the error you're getting would be best. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
