If you mean if iam using '?' or this '%s' the latter used to work flawlessly with python 2.6 but it does not in pythin 3.2.3 both this command fail in python 3.x cur.execute( '''SELECT hits FROM counters WHERE url = ?''', (page,) ) cur.execute( '''SELECT hits FROM counters WHERE url = %s''', (page,) ) i dont have a clue why....