MySQL dymanic query in Python

[RAHUL RAJ]

On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 3:32:51 PM UTC+5:30, Fábio Santos wrote:
> On 29 May 2013 10:13, "RAHUL RAJ" <omrahu... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Can anyone tell me the proper way in which I can execute dynamic MySQL queries in Python?
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> > I want to do dynamic queries for both CREATE and INSERT statement.
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> > Here is my attempted code:
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> > sql="create table %s (%%s, %%s, %%s ... )" % (tablename,''.join(fields)+' '.join(types))
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> > cur.execute(sql)
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> > where 'field' is the fieldnames stored in a list and 'types' are the fieldtypes stored in a list.
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> You need to join the fields and the field types. Use zip().
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> Then join with commas.
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> fields_and_types = ['%s %s' % (field, type) for field, type in zip(fields, types)]
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> what_goes_between_the_parens = ', '.join(fields_and_types)
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> sql = 'create table %s (%s)' % (tablename, what_goes_between_the_parens)
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> See where that gets you.

Fantastic! It worked, Thanks :)