On Dec 14, 5:41 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:19:41 -0300, Hans Müller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > I cannot read a binary file into a mysql database. Everything I tried > > did not succeed. > > > What I tried (found from various google lookups...) is this: > > > con = MySQLdb.connect(to server) > > cur = con.cursor() > > > cur.execute("insert into data values('file1', %s)", (open("test.jpg", > > "rb").read(), )) > > Try wrapping the file contents with a Binary object (untested): > > data = MySQLdb.Binary(open("test.jpg","rb").read()) > cur.execute("insert into data values('file1', %s)", (data,)) > > -- > Gabriel Genellina
I was suprised at what I could stick into a MySQL database. Also, you might wanna compress the binary for database performance. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list