Saving Lists as BLOB

[John Bradbury]

Thanks very much, that worked fine.

John


"Skip Montanaro" <skip at pobox.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1054754648.29498.python-list at python.org...
>
>     John> Is there any way to save a Python List (or Dictionary) as a
binary
>     John> field in MySQLdb?
>
>     John> I have tried :
>
>        CR.execute("UPDATE STDPAGE SET content_s = %s,fldlist = %s"
>                   " where name = 'DATAENTRY'", (pagout,flds) )
>
>     John> where flds is a python list and I get an sql error.  I dont want
>     John> to convert the list to a string which would work.
>
> You could pickle your list (or dictionary):
>
>     CR.execute("UPDATE STDPAGE SET content_s = %s,fldlist = %s"
>                " where name = 'DATAENTRY'", (pagout,pickle.dumps(flds)))
>
> That converts it to a string, but in a more robust way than str() or
repr()
> would.  Upon load from the database you just pickle.loads() what's
> retrieved.
>
> Note that cPickle will be faster, especially if you use the binary format.
> See the libref section for the pickle and cPickle module for details.
>
> Skip
>
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