Strings and % sign fails - Help Please

[Erik Max Francis]

Jorge Godoy wrote:

> I know.  I'm just trying to see if there might be some magic going on with his
> driver... 

Since raw strings have no effect on format specifiers, that won't tell 
you anything.

 >>> r'%' == '%'
True

His problem is that cursor.execute does format expansion with %, so a 
single % is not legal.

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