Is there a maximum size to a Python program?

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <Xns9BFA70E834F97duncanbooth at 127.0.0.1>, Duncan Booth wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
> 
>> In message <gt3fv1$1aci$1 at news.ett.com.ua>, Paul Hemans wrote:
>> 
>>> One problem though that I didn't mention in my original
>>> posting was that the replication may only require updating one or
>>> more fields, that is a problem with a generating a single SQL
>>> statement to cover all requests.
>> 
>> That's not a big issue. Assume the field names and corresponding
>> values are coming from a Python dict, eg
>> 
>>     FieldValues = \
>>       {
>>         "field1" : ... value1 ...;
>>         "field2" : ... value2 ...;
>>      }
>> 
>> then you can construct an SQL statement on the fly with something like
>> 
>>     sqlcmd = \
>>         (
>>             "insert into my_table set "
>>         +
>>             ", ".join
>>               (
>>                 "%s = %s" % (k, SQLString(FieldValues[k]))
>>                     for k in FieldValues.keys()
>>               )
>>         )
>> 
>> where SQLString is as defined at
>><http://codecodex.com/wiki/index.php?
> title=Useful_MySQL_Routines#Quoting
>>>.
>> 
>> 
> 
> Not so nice if the input data is something like:
> 
>     FieldValues = { "field1=0);DROP my_table;": "" }
> 
> So you want something to validate fieldnames.

That's not going to happen. These are field names, not values you're talking 
about.

> Also you are assuming that all the values are strings ...

No I'm not.