Hi Dennis - Thanks for your help with this ....
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On 19 Feb 2006 16:26:15 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the
> following in comp.lang.python:
>
> > Hi - I have written some python to insert a row into a table using
> > MySQLDB. I have never before written SQL/Python using embedded
> > parameters in the SQL and I'm having some difficulties. Could someone
> > point me in the right direction please ?
> > sqlQuery = "INSERT INTO EVA_COMPANY
> > (COM_ADDRESS,COM_AUTOID,COM_COMPANY_ADDRESS,COM_STRUCT_OWNER_CODE)
> > VALUES (?,?,?,?) "
>
> One: I believe MySQLdb uses %s placeholders, not ?
>
> >>> import MySQLdb
> >>> MySQLdb.paramstyle
> 'format'
>
> From the DB-API PEP
>
> paramstyle
>
> String constant stating the type of parameter marker
> formatting expected by the interface. Possible values are
> [2]:
>
> 'qmark' Question mark style,
> e.g. '...WHERE name=?'
> 'numeric' Numeric, positional style,
> e.g. '...WHERE name=:1'
> 'named' Named style,
> e.g. '...WHERE name=:name'
> 'format' ANSI C printf format codes,
> e.g. '...WHERE name=%s'
> 'pyformat' Python extended format codes,
> e.g. '...WHERE name=%(name)s'
>
>
Great stuff. I had seen some example code which used question marks and
rather too slavishly used it as a model. As you say MySQLDb does indeed
use 'format' and so %s are the way to go ...
>
> > print sqlQuery
> > sql = cursor.execute(sqlQuery,("test","NULL","Tester1017",5))
>
> Two: I think it is smart enough to translate a Python None to a
> MySQL NULL -- which is different from a four-character string containing
> NULL (or even a zero-character string "").
... just to confirm that yes using a Python None works fine if you wish
to put a Null into a column ...
>
> >
> > CREATE TABLE `eva_company` (
> > `COM_AUTOID` int(9) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
>
> As an auto-increment field, the recommendation would be to not even
> mention the field in the INSERT SQL -- that also takes care of the
> problem of specifying NULL to a non-null field!
>
... yes it didn't start off that way but I was busy trying everthing I
could think of to try to make it happier.
thanks for your help it's all working now.
regards
richard.
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