Inserting into a database

[Stephen Hansen]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 5:06 PM, aditya shukla
<adityashukla1983 at gmail.com>wrote:

> this what the code looks like.
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> db = MySQLdb.connect("localhost","root","juventus12","factoids",charset =
> "utf8", use_unicode = True )
> cursor= db.cursor()   # i added charset = "utf8", use_unicode = True just
> now and changed the character set of mysql still no help.
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> cursor.execute("""INSERT INTO question_table
> (question_id,source_id,question) VALUES (5,1,"question")""")
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First, I just suggest you use single quotes around string data in SQL. Even
though mySQL allows double quotes in that context.

Second, it looks like you just need to commit. E.g., "db.commit()"

--S



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> language, output_encoding = locale.getdefaultlocale()
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> C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\MySQLdb\__init__.py:34: DeprecationWarning:
> the sets module is deprecated
>   from sets import ImmutableSet
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> cp1252 en_US
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> Thanks
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Stephen Hansen
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