Updating a filename's counter value failed each time

[John Gordon]

In <MtKvt.47400$ja6.35986 at fx18.am4> Alister <alister.ware at ntlworld.com> writes:

> > #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()

rowcount isn't a method call; it's just an attribute.  You don't need
the parentheses.

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