Escaping confusion with Python 3 + MySQL

[Νίκος Βέργος]

Τη Κυριακή, 26 Μαρτίου 2017 - 8:58:55 μ.μ. UTC+3, ο χρήστης alister έγραψε:
> On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 07:43:51 -0700, Νίκος Βέργος wrote:
> 
> > Τη Κυριακή, 26 Μαρτίου 2017 - 5:38:57 μ.μ. UTC+3, ο χρήστης alister
> > έγραψε:
> >> On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 07:24:49 -0700, Νίκος Βέργος wrote:
> >> 
> >> > Τη Κυριακή, 26 Μαρτίου 2017 - 5:19:27 μ.μ. UTC+3, ο χρήστης Ian
> >> > έγραψε:
> >> > 
> >> >> You need to change the placeholders back. The poster who told you to
> >> >> replace them was misinformed.
> >> > 
> >> > okey altered them back to
> >> > 
> >> > cur.execute('''UPDATE visitors SET (pagesID, host, ref, location,
> >> > useros, browser, visits) VALUES (%s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s) WHERE
> >> > host LIKE "%%s%" ''',
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> (pID, domain, ref, location, useros,
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> browser, lastvisit, domain) )
> >> > 
> >> > but now the problem is how to exact;y type the Where HOST like "%%%"
> >> > 
> >> > I MEAN HOW TO DIFFERENTIATE '%S' FROM LITERAL '%' character.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> as a quick thought (untested) it is probably best to have %s as your
> >> parameter for the Like clause & ad the sql wild-cards (% symbols) to
> >> the data you pass in as I think the expansion of %s adds quote marks
> >> which will certainly cause the sql parser issues.
> > 
> > How do you propose writing that cur.execute statement Alister?
> 
> 
> cur.execute('''UPDATE visitors SET (pagesID, host, ref, location,
> >> > useros, browser, visits) VALUES (%s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s) WHERE
> >> > host LIKE %s '''
> 
> but you will need to amend the data  you pass so that the last element 
> has the surrounding % characters .
> 
> 
> -- 
> T-1's congested due to porn traffic to the news server.

i have done so ith 3 different ways to prepare the string before sending it as an argument to update query as i mentioned in a previous post.

Unfortunately all 3 ways weren't able to make the query work.