Help with MySQLdb insert with data extracted from odbc <-- Oracle

[Gerhard Häring]

* candiazoo at attbi.com <candiazoo at attbi.com> [2002-06-22 01:43 +0000]:
> Can someone tell me what this means?  I mean, I guess I *know* what it means,
> but why?
> 
> The insert statement into a mysql database is...
> 
> 'insert into works values(?, ?, ?, ?, ? ,?)'

Wrong. paramstyle = 'format' in MySQLdb, not 'qmark'. Look into the
DB-API specs (PEP 0249) for details about the various paramstyles that
are possible.

> The invocation of the dynamic sql is...
> 
>     status = cur_mysql.execute(sql, 
>         (wrk_inst, ZERO, trs_inst, aas_inst, title, NADA))

Simply use %s instead of ?. And read the fine MySQLdb docs that are
included :-)

Gerhard

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