Newbie needing some help

[Mark Lawrence]

On 08/08/2014 20:07, Matt Smith wrote:
> I am trying to write a program that will loop through a text file and
> delete rows in a mysql database.
>
> It seemingly runs but I don't see anything getting deleted in the db.
> Is there anything apparent that I am missing?
>
> This is the code:
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import mysql.connector
> #
> f=open('/home/smithm/email-list.txt', 'r')

The modern idiom is:-

with open(...) as f: but that doesn't matter here.

> for line in f:
>          #<do something with line>
>          # Open database connection
>          db = mysql.connector.connect(user="xx", password="xx",
> host="localhost", database="xx")
>
>          # prepare a cursor object using cursor() method
>          cursor = db.cursor()

Are you aware that you're connecting to your db and setting up the 
cursor in every iteration of the loop?

>
>          # Prepare SQL query to DELETE required records
>          sql = "DELETE FROM tblc_users WHERE user_email=%s, % (line)"
>          try:
>            # Execute the SQL command
>            cursor.execute(sql)
>            # Commit your changes in the database
>            db.commit()
>          except:

This bare except is masking every possible thing that can go wrong. 
Strip it out and I expect you'll find your mistake in seconds.  Once 
you've corrected your code add back in the bare minimum number of 
exceptions that you really should catch.

>            # Rollback in case there is any error
>            db.rollback()
>
>          # disconnect from server
>          db.close()
>
> --
> Matthew Smith
>

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Mark Lawrence