MySQL + SQL Statements + Quote escaping

[Steve Holden]

"Huw Lynes" <huwdotlynes at ic.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> In article <3A83FF9E.1E8CC176 at gocept.com>, Christian Theune wrote:
> >Hi there.
> >
> >i just tuned into python and it's really cool. I like it.
> >Before I came to python i used to write scripts in php.
> >There was a function called "addslashes" it escaped quotes and
> >slashes to make strings sql-safe.
> >
> >Is there any function like that in python? I didnt found on.
>
> There probably is but I usually just do a quick
> string.find() to to find all the quotes and then slice the string
> at the indexes returned and add in the slashes.
> But it seems like a common problem like this should have
> a module somewhere.
>
> Sorry I couldn't be of more help but I'm
> only a newbie myself.
>
> Huw Lynes
>
string.replace() works well.

regards
 Steve