Python/MySQL Where ... (THANKS!)

[Miles Thompson]

To Warren, Boudejwin and Andy:

Thanks for the help and examples. Andy, the trainer example was just the
ticket to
put all the pieces in place for your module.

Thanks again - Miles

Andy Dustman wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Miles Thompson wrote:
>
> > Dear All,
> >
> > Please be patient with me, if I've done something incredibly dumb. I've
> > workekd with FoxPro, Access, SQl Server for years, but the Python/MySQL
> > combination is new to me. My query results disappear and all I get is a
> > count of the records retrieved.
> >
> > Here's what I've done. (Explore is the database, and table Test has 5
> > records.)
> >
> > >>> import Mysqldb
> > >>>conn = Mysqldb.mysqldb('explore')
> > >>>conn
> > <Mysqldb.Connection instance at 810ea08>
> > #
> > # here's my first attempt at a select
> > #
> > >>>conn.execute("Select * from test;")
> > 5
> > #
> > # wasn't what I wanted, so then I did this
> > #
> > >>>curs = conn.cursor()
> > >>>curs.execute("Select * from test;")
> > 5
> > #
> > # Nope. Try assigning to a variable?
> > #
> > >>>data = curs.execute("Select * from test;")
> > >>>data
> > 5
> > #
> > # and at this point it was 11:30, and over the past two days I'd
> > # hammered myself through the Python tutorial, various Python docs,
> > # set up MySQL and played with it interactively, reinstalled a new
> > version
> > # of Python (1.5.2) and the Python module for MySQL.
> > # I used python-MySQLmodule-1.4.0-7.i386.rpm
> > # So  I went to bed.
>
> 5 is the number of rows the query returned. To actually get the data, you
> need to do:
>
> nrows = curs.execute("Select * from test;")
> data = curs.fetchall()
>
> Check out the database topic guide over at www.python.org for the DB API
> specification.
>
>
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