Why isn't this query working in python?

[erikcw]

On May 25, 11:28 am, Carsten Haese <cars... at uniqsys.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 09:51 -0500, Dave Borne wrote:
> > > I'm trying to run the following query:
> > ...
> > > member_id=%s AND expire_date > NOW() AND completed=1 AND (product_id
>
> > Shouldn't you be using the bind variable '?' instead of '%s' ?
>
> The parameter placeholder for MySQLdb is, indeed and unfortunately, %s.
> The OP is using parameter substitution correctly, though in an
> obfuscated fashion. 'sql' is a misnamed tuple containing both the query
> string *and* the parameters, which is being unpacked with '*' into two
> arguments to the execute call.
>
> The only problem I see is that the parameters should be a sequence, i.e.
> (self.uid,) instead of just (self.uid).
>
> HTH,
>
> --
> Carsten Haesehttp://informixdb.sourceforge.net

I tried adding the comma to make it a sequence - but now change.

('SELECT payment_id FROM amember_payments WHERE member_id=%s AND
expire_date > NOW() AND completed=1 AND (product_id >11 AND product_id
<21)', (1608L,))
()

What else could it be?

Thanks!
Erik