database questions ala newbie pythonist

[Weinhandl Herbert]

chris wrote:

...


> This works fine using the literals 0 (For Delstatus) and 1190 (for
> ProductID)
> But when I try to use a variable such as:
> 
> ###################################################################
> ...
> varA = '0'
> varB = '1190'
> mycursor.execute('Update Categories Set DelStatus = ' varA 'Where ProductID
> = ' varB)

use string formatting expressions
(which are easier to handle than string concatenation) :

'UPDATE Categories SET DelStatus=%d WHERE ProductID=%s;' % (varA,'1190')

or maybe

"UPDATE Categories SET DelStatus='%d' WHERE ProductID='%d';" % (0,varB)

if your DB wants your int's as string


> ###################################################################
> 
> I get errors.  Please excuse my ignorance in what is probably obvious to
> most others within this newsgroup.....
> What I am trying to do is to update my database from a 2 field .CSV file
> I figured I could load the CSV file into a dictionary and parse each row
> running a query using the values from varA and VarB from the key value
> pairs.

happy pythoning

Herbert