[Tutor] Dates

[John CORRY]

Hi All,

I am using the code below to select items from a visual foxpro database
where the dates are between the 31/01/2006 and 31/12/2006.  The good
news is that the code below works.

However, I want to make the from and to dates variable.  I want to
change the range depending on user input.  I can't get this to work. I
have tried the code below marked "Tried" but I get the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\test\timemanager.py", line 16, in ?
    c.execute('SELECT * FROM times where rt_weekst >= ? and rt_weekst <=
?  and rt_type == ?', (a,b,"R",))
DataError: ('22005', 301, '[Microsoft][ODBC Visual FoxPro
Driver]Operator/operand type mismatch.', 4579)

Code that works is below:


import mx.ODBC
import mx.ODBC.Windows
import mx.DateTime



db = mx.ODBC.Windows.DriverConnect('DSN=tnt')
c = db.cursor()
c.execute('SELECT * FROM times where rt_weekst >= date(2006,01,31) and
rt_weekst <= date(2006,12,31)  and rt_type == ?', ("R",))    
for row in c.fetchall():
    print row
    row = str(row)
   
c.close()    


Tried but get errors:

import mx.ODBC
import mx.ODBC.Windows
import mx.DateTime

import datetime
a = datetime.date(2006,01,31)
b = datetime.date(2006,12,31)
db = mx.ODBC.Windows.DriverConnect('DSN=tnt')
c = db.cursor()
c.execute('SELECT * FROM times where rt_weekst >= ? and rt_weekst <= ?
and rt_type == ?', (a,b,"R",))    
for row in c.fetchall():
    print row
    row = str(row)
    
c.close()   

Is there a way to format the date so that the Select statement works?

Thanks,

John.



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