db-api

Python pysqlite not accepting my qmark parameterization

I think I am being a bonehead, maybe not importing the right package, but when I do... from pysqlite2 import dbapi2 as sqlite import types import re import sys ... def create_asgn(self): stmt = "CREATE TABLE ? (login CHAR(8) PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL, grade INTEGER NOT NULL)" stmt2 = "insert into asgn values ('?', ?)" sel...

Why connection in Python's DB-API does not have "begin" operation?

Working with cursors in mysql-python I used to call "BEGIN;", "COMMIT;", and "ROLLBACK;" explicitly as follows: try: cursor.execute("BEGIN;") # some statements cursor.execute("COMMIT;") except: cursor.execute("ROLLBACK;") then, I found out that the underlying connection object has the corresponding methods: try: c...

DB-API with Python

I just spent the better half of my day trying to figure this one out so please for the love of god, help me. I'm trying to insert some data into a local MySQL database by using MySQL Connector/Python -- apparently the only way to integrate MySQL into Python 3 without breaking out the C Compiler. I tried all the examples that come with ...