[DB-SIG] how do I execute a query likte 'select * from mytable where id in (1, 2, 3)'?

[Federico Di Gregorio]

Il giorno sab, 29/12/2007 alle 11.37 +0100, Harald Armin Massa ha
scritto:
> Joerg,
> 
> > maybe this is obvious, but I don't know how to execute a query like:
> > select * from mytable where id in (1,2,3)
> > from python. The difficult part is the set in the where clause, the "in
> > (a,b,c,d, ...)"
> 
> 
> WHICH database are you talking about?
> 
> With Oracle, you are on your own, that is, you have to do stringmagic
> to create the SQL.
> 
> With PostgreSQL and PSYCOPG2 you can use lists:
> 
> cs.execute("select * from s2e where element = any (%(what)s)",
> dict(what=[1,2,3]))
> 
> using PostgreSQL arrays and the "any" function.

psycopg2 supports direct conversion of tuples to IN clauses, doing
quoting on the arguments. Just do:

cs.execute("select * from s2e where element IN %(what)s", 
	{'what': (1,2,3)})

federico

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