On Apr 24, 2006, at 11:35, Patty wrote:
> I have the following code:
>
> UPDATE mytable SET col1 = %s, col2 = %s, col3 = %s, col4 = %s,
> col5 = %s, col6 = %s WHERE name = %s
> """, (tuple(entries)))
> In this example, entries is a list of numbers and the last element is
> a name of
> a target.
>
> This works fine. But, there will be times when new columns will be
> added based
> on a dictionary I have. I've been asked not to hard code the column
> names (i.e.
> col1, col2, etc.). I need to know if it is possible to put
> placeholders instead
> of column names (i.e. %s=%s -> column name = column value). If so,
> what is the
> right syntax for that?
Unfortunately, using the %s syntax is going to put the name of the
column in quotes, and so MySQL will think you're trying to assign one
string to another, rather than a string to a column. Instead, you'll
need to piecemeal your string from parts manually, like this:
d = { ... your dictionary of column names and values }
d_items = d.items () # doing it this way to ensure that we dont get
inconsistent ordering
query_string = "update mytable set " + ",".join ( [ key + "=%s" for
key, value in d_items ] )
cursor.execute ( query_string, tuple ( [ value for key, value in
d_items ] ) )
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