On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 01:01 +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> On 2006-12-18 22:56, Art Protin wrote:
> > While I am bothering you good people with my silly questions, I
> > might just as well tack on another: if one invokes .executemany with a
> > seq_of_parameters that is empty (like
> >
> > a_cursor.executemany(SQL, [])
> >
> > ) shouldn't the interface module execute the query zero times, ie, not
> > execute the query at all?
>
> The SQL command could be a command that doesn't have any parameters.
> In such a case, the above would be the same as .execute(SQL).
I beg to differ. I think it's quite clear from the spec that
cursor.executemany(SQL, []) is a no-op. To actually execute a
parameter-less query with executemany, you'd have to pass an empty
parameter tuple as in cursor.executemany(SQL, [()]).
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