That query doesn't trigger any errors when run from the InfluxDB CLI, so it
might be referring to a Python syntax error. I would also expect to see an
exception if it was an error returned from InfluxDB.

Thanks,
Ross

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 7:44 PM, Melissa Flores <meli.f...@live.com> wrote:

> data = client.query("SELECT * FROM bmspoint WHERE time > now() - 10m AND
> "name" = 'B10_Area3for2_E_MtrEl17_PwrActv'")
>
> Output:
>
> File "<ipython-input-587-bb9b83c27768>", line 1
> data = client.query("SELECT * FROM bmspoint WHERE time > now() - 10m AND
> "name" = 'B10_Area3for2_E_MtrEl17_PwrActv'")
> ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 8:39 PM, Ross McDonald <r...@influxdb.com> wrote:
>
>> Can you paste the full query and error output? It sounds like there might
>> be something else off with the query syntax.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ross
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 8:45 PM, Melissa Flores <meli.f...@live.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> When I attempted to use double quotes around 'name' , I received
>>> "SyntaxError: invalid syntax"
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 10:02 PM, Ross McDonald <r...@influxdb.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The word "name" is a keyword within InfluxQL, so you have to wrap it in
>>>> double-quotes. Do you get the same error if you update the query to the
>>>> following (wrapping 'name' in double-quotes)?
>>>>
>>>> > SELECT * FROM bmspoint WHERE time > now() - 10m AND "name" =
>>>> 'B10_Area3for2_E_MtrEl6_PwrActv'
>>>>
>>>> You can find more information on proper quoting in the InfluxDB
>>>> documentation FEI here
>>>> <https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v0.13/troubleshooting/frequently_encountered_issues/#single-quoting-and-double-quoting-in-queries>
>>>> .
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Ross
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 10:01 PM, <melissa.flores...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm trying to collect data from a particular sensor, so I used the
>>>>> following code to retrieve the data.
>>>>>
>>>>> data = client.query("SELECT * FROM bmspoint WHERE time > now() - 10m
>>>>> AND name = 'B10_Area3for2_E_MtrEl6_PwrActv'")
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Although data does exist for this sensor in this particular time
>>>>> frame, I receive the following error.
>>>>>
>>>>> InfluxDBClientError                       Traceback (most recent call
>>>>> last)
>>>>> <ipython-input-252-a8110907c888> in <module>()
>>>>>       4     if n.find(request) != -1:
>>>>>       5         print ("True")
>>>>> ----> 6         data2 = client.query("SELECT * FROM bmspoint WHERE
>>>>> time > now() - 10m AND name = 'B10_Area3for2_E_MtrEl6_PwrActv'")
>>>>>       7         print data2
>>>>>       8     else:
>>>>>
>>>>> /Users/3for2/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/influxdb/_dataframe_client.pyc
>>>>> in query(self, query, chunked, database)
>>>>>      77
>>>>>      78         """
>>>>> ---> 79         results = super(DataFrameClient, self).query(query,
>>>>> database=database)
>>>>>      80         if query.upper().startswith("SELECT"):
>>>>>      81             if len(results) > 0:
>>>>>
>>>>> /Users/3for2/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/influxdb/client.pyc
>>>>> in query(self, query, params, epoch, expected_response_code, database,
>>>>> raise_errors)
>>>>>     323             params=params,
>>>>>     324             data=None,
>>>>> --> 325             expected_response_code=expected_response_code
>>>>>     326         )
>>>>>     327
>>>>>
>>>>> /Users/3for2/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/influxdb/client.pyc
>>>>> in request(self, url, method, params, data, expected_response_code, 
>>>>> headers)
>>>>>     246             return response
>>>>>     247         else:
>>>>> --> 248             raise InfluxDBClientError(response.content,
>>>>> response.status_code)
>>>>>     249
>>>>>     250     def write(self, data, params=None,
>>>>> expected_response_code=204):
>>>>>
>>>>> InfluxDBClientError: 400: {"error":"error parsing query: found NAME,
>>>>> expected identifier, string, number, bool at line 1, char 53"}
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I did not receive this error when I used other tags. Any advice?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
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