python mariadb & html tables

Tue Sep 15 15:33:26 EDT 2020

On Tuesday, September 15, 2020 at 2:52:35 PM UTC-4, Larry.Martell at gmail.com wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 11:45 AM SS <sami.... at gmail.com> wrote: 
> > 
> > I'm trying to create an table in html from a Maria DB table, from a python script. I'm getting some unexpected results. 
> > 
> > The environment is Centos 7, I'm using Python3 with apache. 
> > 
> > Here is copy of the script I'm using: 
> > 
> > ******* SCRIPT START ********* 
> > 
> > import mysql.connector 
> > import cgitb 
> > cgitb.enable() 
> > 
> > mydb = mysql.connector.connect( 
> > host="localhost", 
> > user="root", 
> > password="somepassword", 
> > database="somedb" 
> > ) 
> > 
> > mycursor = mydb.cursor() 
> > 
> > mycursor.execute("select name, provisioned_space, used_space, memory_size, cpus, ip_address, host_cpu, host_mem from projecttable where name like '%newproject%'") 
> > 
> > myresult = mycursor.fetchall() 
> > 
> > print "Content-type: text/plain:charset=utf-8" 
> > print 
> > for x in myresult: 
> > print(x) 
> > 
> > 
> > ******* SCRIPT STOPS ********* 
> > 
> > It works. But I get alot of extraneous data I don't need or want. Here is an example of the output: 
> > 
> > ********* OUTPUT STARTS *********** 
> > 
> > Content-type: text/plain:charset=utf-8 
> > 
> > (u'host1.mydomain.com', u'106.11 GB', u'32.72 GB', u'1 GB', u'1', u'172.18.33.62', u'Running', u'16 MHz') 
> > (u'hopst2.mydomain.com', u'106.08 GB', u'56.87 GB', u'1 GB', u'1', u'172.17.4.82', u'Running', u'0 Hz') 
> > 
> > ********* OUTPUT STOPS *********** 
> > 
> > Is this typical of Python? Do I need create another script to clean up the output? Or is there a better way to extract data from a MariaDB instance, and put it in an HTML table? Any advise would be appreciated.
> What is the extraneous data?

Thanks for responding.  I am expecting (or would like) to get the following output:

Content-type: text/plain:charset=utf-8 
<html>
<body>
<table> 
<tr> <td> host1.mydomain.com </td> <td> 106.11 GB </td>  <td> 32.72 GB </td>  <td> 1 GB </td>  <td> 172.18.33.62 </td>   <td> Running </td>   <td> 16 MHz </td>   </tr>
<tr> <td> host2.mydomain.com  </td> <td> 106.08 GB  56.87 GB </td>   <td> 1 GB </td>   <td> 1 GB   </td> <td> 172.17.4.82  </td> <td> Running 0 Hz   </td> </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

But instead I get the following:

Content-type: text/plain:charset=utf-8 

(u'host1.mydomain.com', u'106.11 GB', u'32.72 GB', u'1 GB', u'1', u'172.18.33.62', u'Running', u'16 MHz') 
(u'hopst2.mydomain.com', u'106.08 GB', u'56.87 GB', u'1 GB', u'1', u'172.17.4.82', u'Running', u'0 Hz') 

So each table row is enclosed in parenthesis, and each field is enclosed in 'u   ',

Ultimately, my intention is to create an html table, from a Maria DB table using Python.   TIA.