mysql insert with tuple

[Christian]

Am Mittwoch, 21. November 2012 20:49:14 UTC+1 schrieb Hans Mulder:
> On 21/11/12 18:19:15, Christian wrote:
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> > Hi ,
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> > my purpose is a generic insert via  tuple , because the number of fields and can differ. But  I'm stucking .
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> > ilist=['hello',None,7,None,None]
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> > #This version works, but all varchar fields are in extra '' enclosed.
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> > con.execute(""" INSERT INTO {} VALUES %r; """.format(table) , (tuple(ilist),))
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> > #This produce (1054, "Unknown column 'None' in 'field list'"),
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> > #but without None values it works.
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> > con.execute(""" INSERT INTO {} VALUES %r; """.format(table) % (tuple(ilist),))
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> How about:
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> con.execute("""INSERT INTO {} VALUES ({})"""
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>     .format(table, ",".join("%s" for _ in ilist)), ilist)
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> Or perhaps break it down into smaller steps:
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> bind_variables = ",".join("%s" for _ in ilist))
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> query = "INSERT INTO {} VALUES ({})".format(table, bind_variables)
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> con.execute(query, ilist)
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> Hope this helps,
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> 
> -- HansM

Thank you both!. However, for future issues  I'll take Chris advise about a ORM into account . It's  only a sort of  data crunching (offline), so SQL Injection isn't a problem.