Updating a filename's counter value failed each time

[Alister]

On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:28:47 +0300, Νίκος wrote:

> On 17/6/2013 10:19 μμ, John Gordon wrote:
>> Print the cur.rowcount attribute, which contains the number of rows
>> that were affected by the update.  If it's zero, that should tell you
>> something.
> 
> 
> #update file's counter if cookie does not exist cur.execute('''UPDATE
> files SET hits = hits + 1, host = %s, lastvisit =
> %s WHERE url = %s''', (host, lastvisit, filename) )
> 
> if cur.rowcount:
> 		print( " database has been affected" )
> 
> indeed every time i select afilename the message gets printed bu then
> again noticing the database via phpmyadmin the filename counter is
> always remaining 0, and not added by +1

replase
 if cur.rowcount:
 		print( " database has been affected" )

with print cur.rowcount()

you can also use phpmyadmin to try your sql queries interactively to 
check the perform as expected before putting them into your code

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