Database bind variables?

[Rene Pijlman]

Andrew Fabbro:
>Python + Postgres.  Finding good documentation on working with
>databases in python is proving more challenging than writing the code

After scanning this newsgroup and other sources I decided to use the
pyPgSQL database driver, instead of PyGreSQL in the PostgreSQL
distribution (DaMn CaPS). It appears to be better maintained.
http://pypgsql.sourceforge.net/

It supports DBAPI.
http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0249.html

With some additional notes in the README:
http://pypgsql.sourceforge.net/README.html

This is all the documentation I've needed so far.

[parameters]
>I haven't found a way to do this yet with pygresql

With pyPgSQL / DB-API it works like this.

from pyPgSQL import PgSQL

assert PgSQL.paramstyle == "pyformat"

db = PgSQL.connect(host=DB_HOST, database=DB_DATABASE,
                   user=DB_USERNAME, password=DB_PASSWORD,

    # Enable Unicode support, which you may not need.
    client_encoding="utf-8", unicode_results=1)
cursor.execute("set client_encoding to unicode")

get_cities = db.cursor()

def getCitiesInCountry(language, country):
    get_cities.execute("select name, name_in_url, index "
        "from location "
        "where location.country = %(country)s and "
        "location.location_type = 'cities' and "
        "location.language = %(language)s "
        "order by location.index", 
        {'language': language, 'country': country} )
    # [...]

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René Pijlman