On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Michael Bayer <mike...@zzzcomputing.com> wrote: > % is significant in DBAPIs like postgresql and mysqldb where pyformat and > format: %(foo)s and %s, are allowed, so % must be doubled.
So does psycopg2 send '%' or '%%' ? It seems to me that if the strings are held as atoms (individual arguments rather than a single, concatenated string) then '%%' is unnecessary. > On Feb 25, 2011, at 8:53 AM, Jon Nelson wrote: > >> I've been wondering something about sqlalchemy - let's say I have a >> text column "foo". Being able to do foo.startswith(some_value), >> foo.endswith, foo.like and so on is really nice. However, I've noticed >> that the SQL that is emitted contains two percent signs. However, I >> thought only one was necessary. Why is sqlalchemy emitting two? -- Jon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en.
