Select fails when cookie tried to get a numeric value

[Chris Angelico]

On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 1:31 AM, Νίκος Αλεξόπουλος <nikos.gr33k at gmail.com> wrote:
>                 # find the visitor record for the (saved) cID and current
> host
>                 cur.execute('''SELECT * FROM visitors WHERE counterID = %s
> and cookieID = %s''', (cID, cookieID) )
>
>                 data = cur.fetchone()        #cookieID is unique
>
>                 if not data:
>
>                         # first time visitor on this page, create new record
>                         cur.execute('''INSERT INTO visitors (counterID,
> cookieID, host, city, useros, browser, ref, lastvisit) VALUES (%s, %s, %s,
> %s, %s, %s, %s, %s)''', (cID, cookieID, host, city, useros, browser, ref,
> lastvisit) )
>                 else:
>                         # found the page, save its primary key for later use
>                         vID = data[0]
>                         # UPDATE record using retrieved vID
>                         cur.execute('''UPDATE visitors SET host = %s, city =
> %s, useros = %s, browser = %s, ref= %s, hits = hits + 1, lastvisit = %s
>
> WHERE counterID = %s and cookieID = %s''', (host, city, useros, browser,
> ref, lastvisit, vID, cookieID) )

Do you understand the expression "race condition", and how it applies
to the above code? If not, you MUST read up on that before relying on
code like this, and as that's not a Python question, I recommend
Google and Wikipedia.[1]

ChrisA

[1] Yes, I know they're not primary sources. For something like this,
tertiary sources are going to do him fine.