[DB-SIG] Escaping Placeholders

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Peter L. Buschman wrote:
> 
> I know there must be an obvious answer to this question, but what is the 
> standard mechanism
> for escaping placeholders in dbapi execute method calls?
> 
> Eg., when using the qmark paramstyle and I want to include a literal 
> question-mark, do I use \?, '?', ??,

Depends on where you want to use it. Having the ? inside a
string literal is no problem at all and doesn't require
escaping, e.g. 'questions?'. I don't know where else you'd
want to use a literal question mark in the SQL that should
not be interpreted as parameter marker.

Do you have examples ?

> or something else entirely? Ditto for format, named, etc., in any 
> situations where literal text in the query
> might be mistaken for a placeholder.

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