python & mysql probelm

[Sibylle Koczian]

Robert Brewer schrieb:
> james blair wrote:
> 
>>I am having a problem executing following query:
>>cursor.execute("select * from projects where projectid between '%s'
>>and '%s'"%(id1,id2))
> Try dropping the single quotes around each %s
> 
> cursor.execute("select * from projects where projectid "
>                "between %s and %s" % (id1, id2))

But why not use a genuine parametrized query:

cursor.execute("select * from projects where projectid "
                "between %s and %s", (id1, id2))

Especially if you need to execute the same query several times with 
changing parameters this is faster as far as I know, because the query 
is prepared once.

Koczian

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