OK so I guess you know what you need to do now :) something like this perhaaps :
(modified your original code) reportlist = query(reportquery) mystring = '<p>' for row in reportlist: id = row[0] title = row[1] content = row[2] published = row[3] mystring = mystring+id+"\t"+title+"\t"+content+"\t"+published+"</p>" print mystring should get you the data - you may want to force the values to str() type just in case.. anyhow.. when you append an array to an array, you have a multi-dimensional array, so when you iterate, you need to handle two arrays, in essence.. what python is doing is just what it told you to do - convert the multi dimensional list object into a string and print it. :) , therefore, the output would be array("listitem","listitem") basically :) you need to extract your list elements and convert those to strings, then you can work with the whole as a string :) otherwise, do print reportlist (without the str() stuff) and you will print out the entire list of data so you can see what you will be working with :) what I would do is a function that returns the result set, instead, and then iterate over that list object.. Bri! Adam Cripps wrote: > On 3/18/06, Brian Gustin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Oh. just found the original question.. :) >> >>OK perhaps this would be more helpful if you were to manually query >>mysql on command line and paste the results it outputs here. >> >>what I am betting is your method to get the data out of teh query is >>doing exactly what you tell it to.. :) >> >>but this hinges on the answer to "what is the original row of data >>returned by commandline mysql query" >> >>keep in mind Mysql returns a result set as an array (a list or >>dictionary, when it is associative, if you will) >> >>what your code is doing is taking the row (array) and appending it to an >>additional list.. >> >>and where you print the whole, you are basically printing out the >>multi-dimensional array, and I am betting the *last element* returned >>non-null in the mysql query is the content field.. :) >> >>but again, it depends on what the actual content is.. >> >>run these two in mysql command line: >> >>mysql> show create table report; >>mysql> select * from report limit 1; >> >>and let me know the results.. :) >> >>I doubt that blob vs. text has anything to do with this issue :) >> >>Bri! > > > Thanks again Bri, for both your responses. > > As requested - > > mysql> show create table report: > | report | CREATE TABLE `report` ( > `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, > `title` varchar(255) default NULL, > `content` blob, > `author` int(10) default NULL, > `published` varchar(10) default 'n', > `rejected` char(1) default NULL, > PRIMARY KEY (`id`) > ) TYPE=MyISAM | > > mysql> select * from report limit 1; > +----+-------+-----------------+--------+-----------+----------+ > | id | title | content | author | published | rejected | > +----+-------+-----------------+--------+-----------+----------+ > | 1 | Test | This is a test | 0 | n | NULL | > +----+-------+-----------------+--------+-----------+----------+ > 1 row in set (0.02 sec) > (shame this doesn't monospace in Gmail) > > > You are right to bet that the last non-null field (part of the array) > is the content field (select id, title, content from report) > Adam > -- > http://www.monkeez.org > PGP key: 0x7111B833 > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > !DSPAM:441d42ee268352025918492! > > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor