[Tutor] date conversion

[Kent Johnson]

Python wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 10:50 -0400, Kent Johnson wrote:
>> Ray Allen wrote:
>>> I would like Python to convert a date returned by MySQL (2006-04-05)
> 
> Kent's advice below is of course correct, but I'd bet your variable is
> already a datetime.date (or mx.DateTime.Date with older Python
> releases).  In that case you'd already be at step 7.
> 
> When executing your update statement use the args field.
> 
> cursor.execute("UPDATE table SET mydate=%s WHERE id=%s", (date_variable, recordID))
> 
> 
> You should not have to worry about getting your date into the proper
> string format for the database SQL syntax.

Good point. You may well be getting some kind of date object back from 
MySQL, too, rather than a string.

Kent