johnf wrote:
> I spoke to soon. Where can I find the DB-API for postgres? Because the only
> way I can get this to work is using ('%s') and it does not work with (%s).
What module are you using to connect to postgres? That module should
implement DB-API as documented here:
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/
The module itself should have a paramstyle attribute that shows what
kind of parameter passing it expects:
In [5]: import psycopg2
In [6]: psycopg2.paramstyle
Out[6]: 'pyformat'
The meaning of the paramstyle is documented (somewhat) in PEP 249.
> BTW where I'm doing my testing is with a SELECT statement.
>
> below does not work
> mySQL= "Select fieldname from tableName where str_field = %s" % (myVar,)
>
> but this works
> mySQL= "Select fieldname from tableName where str_field = '%s' " % (myVar,)
Can you post a small, complete program containing both the working and
non-working variants and show the complete output of the program?
Kent
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