Sweet! It was the commit.
Thanks!
Greg--
On Thursday, December 3, 2015 at 10:48:45 AM UTC-6, Michael Bayer wrote:
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> On 12/03/2015 11:28 AM, Horcle wrote:
> > I am trying to do a bulk insert of a large list of dictionaries of the
> form:
> >
> > results = [{'attribute': u'SEX', 'value_d': 0.0, 'value_s': u'M',
> > 'sid': 1L},
> > {'attribute': u'SEX', 'value_d': 0.0, 'value_s': u'M',
> > 'sid': 2L},
> > {'attribute': u'SEX', 'value_d': 0.0, 'value_s': u'M',
> > 'sid': 3L},
> > {'attribute': u'SEX', 'value_d': 0.0, 'value_s': u'M',
> > 'sid': 4L},
> > ...
> > ]
> >
> > After reading about 'executemany' and bulk_insert_mappings, I decided to
> > try the later, since it looked much simpler to work with.
> >
> > Here is the code to execute this, with the naive assumption that this
> > would work with a list of dictionaries:
> >
> > Session = sessionmaker(bind=engine)
> > s = Session()
> > s.bulk_insert_mappings(Results,results)
> >
> > My Results model is:
> >
> > class Results(db.Model):
> > __tablename__ = 'results'
> > id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True, autoincrement=True)
> > sid = Column(Integer)
> > attribute = Column(String(2048))
> > value_s = Column(String(2048))
> > value_d = Column(Float)
> >
> > db is the SQLAlchemy object for my app:
> >
> > db = SQLAlchemy(app)
> >
> > No errors are thrown when I run this, but the data are not being
> inserted.
>
> 1. are you emitting s.commit() to commit your transaction?
>
> 2. what's in that "results" object? it should definitely do something
> unless the collection is empty.
>
> 3. turn on echo=True on your engine to see what SQL is emitted.
>
> Also note that the "SQLAlchemy(app)" object there is a flask thing, that
> provides its own Session. There's not much reason for it if you are
> making a Session() yourself with an "engine" from somewhere.
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> >
> > End of naive assumption: The documentation says I need a "list of
> > mapping dictionaries." I assume since my dictionaries are key-value
> > pairs, I need to do something like
> >
> > dict = {k:v for k,v in (x.split(':') for x in results) }
> >
> > I tried this, but I then got an error that
> >
> > AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'split'
> >
> > Not sure where to go with this now...
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Greg--
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