escape string to store in a database?

[andrei.avk at gmail.com]

On Mar 14, 1:36 am, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr... at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:55:27 -0700 (PDT), andrei.... at gmail.com declaimed
> the following in comp.lang.python:
>
>
>
> > Thanks for the reply, Carsten, how would this work with UPDATE
> > command? I get this error:
>
> >         cmd = "UPDATE items SET content = ? WHERE id=%d" % id
>
>                 cmd = "update items set content = ? where id = ?"
>
> >     self.cursor.execute(cmd, content)
>
>                 self.cursor.execute(cmd, (content, id))
>
> would be the preferred method...

Thanks very much - this works perfectly -ak

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