[Tutor] preventing SQL injection

johnf jfabiani at yolo.com
Fri Jan 11 19:28:59 CET 2008


On Friday 11 January 2008 10:20:13 am Alan Gauld wrote:
> "johnf" <jfabiani at yolo.com> wrote
>
> > and should be doing
> > tempCursor.execute ( "Select pg_get_serial_sequence ( %s, %s ) as
> > seq", ( 'public.arcust', 'pkid' ) )
> >
> > which prevented SQL injection.
>
> The syntax of the execute statement varies by database
> Which DB are you using. For example SQLite uses ?
> instead of %s indicators.
>
> Could that be the issue? Have you checked the DB-API
> guide for your database?
>
> HTH,

all's working now - thanks

-- 
John Fabiani


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