John Machin wrote:
> On Jan 14, 9:42 pm, Steve Holden wrote:
>
>> 3. I can't be certain my experience with PostgreSQL extends to MySQl,
>> but I have done experiments which prove to my satisfaction that it isn't
>> possible to parameterize LIKE arguments. So the only way to do it
>> appears to be
Steve Holden wrote:
3. I can't be certain my experience with PostgreSQL extends to MySQl,
but I have done experiments which prove to my satisfaction that it isn't
possible to parameterize LIKE arguments. So the only way to do it
appears to be to build the query yourself.
Or using Postgres thro
On Jan 14, 9:42 pm, Steve Holden wrote:
> 3. I can't be certain my experience with PostgreSQL extends to MySQl,
> but I have done experiments which prove to my satisfaction that it isn't
> possible to parameterize LIKE arguments. So the only way to do it
> appears to be to build the query yoursel
On Jan 14, 9:22 pm, gumbah wrote:
> Aahh the conn.commit() DID the trick!!
>
> I tried that before, but then it failed at another point. I got it
> working now! Thanks a lot Peter and John!!
For the benefit of future searchers, can you please tell us which
varieties of cursor.execute() it works o
On Jan 14, 8:55 pm, gumbah wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> thanks a lot for your quick reply!
Please don't top-post.
Please answer the question """You don't say what "doesn't work"
means ... did you get exceptions, or just silently not updating?"""
>
> I tried all of your suggestions but none of them work
gumbah wrote:
> I have this really strange problem. I hope someone can help:
>
> I am trying to update a database like so:
>
> UPDATE `tablename` set fieldx='test' WHERE flfieldx = null and fieldy
> like '%certainvalue%'
>
> My Python code looks like this:
>
> fillsql = "UPDATE `tablename` set
Aahh the conn.commit() DID the trick!!
I tried that before, but then it failed at another point. I got it
working now! Thanks a lot Peter and John!!
cheers!
On 14 jan, 11:14, gumbah wrote:
> Yep, also tried that. Weird thing is that I get no errors, it's just
> silently not updating...
>
> On 1
Yep, also tried that. Weird thing is that I get no errors, it's just
silently not updating...
On 14 jan, 11:06, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
> gumbah wrote:
> > I tried all of your suggestions but none of them work... I have a clue
> > on why it is failing: MySQLdb seems to quote the % ch
gumbah wrote:
> I tried all of your suggestions but none of them work... I have a clue
> on why it is failing: MySQLdb seems to quote the % characters or
> something...
>
> Even when i do:
> cursor.execute("UPDATE tablename set fieldx='test' WHERE flfieldx is
> null and fieldy like '%therealvalue
Hi John,
thanks a lot for your quick reply!
I tried all of your suggestions but none of them work... I have a clue
on why it is failing: MySQLdb seems to quote the % characters or
something...
Even when i do:
cursor.execute("UPDATE tablename set fieldx='test' WHERE flfieldx is
null and fieldy li
On Jan 14, 7:31 pm, gumbah wrote:
> I have this really strange problem. I hope someone can help:
>
> I am trying to update a database like so:
>
> UPDATE `tablename` set fieldx='test' WHERE flfieldx = null and fieldy
> like '%certainvalue%'
>
> My Python code looks like this:
>
> fillsql = "UPDATE
I have this really strange problem. I hope someone can help:
I am trying to update a database like so:
UPDATE `tablename` set fieldx='test' WHERE flfieldx = null and fieldy
like '%certainvalue%'
My Python code looks like this:
fillsql = "UPDATE `tablename` set fieldx='test' WHERE flfieldx = nul
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