I have a tab delimeted file that I want to convert into a mysql table

Question

I have a tab delimeted file that I want to convert into a mysql table. there are 25 tab delimeted fields in the text file. I can get the values in when I construct the SQL statement word by word and get each value individually stated in the VALUES part but when I try to get the list as a whole it does not work. Here is the code. I couldn't figure it out. Any ideas?

lines=open(path, "r").readlines()

for line in lines[1:]:

 linex=line.strip().split("\t")
 linex.insert(0,'sometextindex')       

 try:
  cursor.execute('INSERT INTO variants VALUES(%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s)',linex) 
 except:
  print 'line number=',a,linex

Answer 1

Why not just use LOAD DATA INFILE from mysql?

Answer 2

stmt="%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s" % (linex[0],linex[1],linex[2], ........ )
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cursor.execute(stmt) 
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