[python-sybase] problems with executing dynamically created queries.

[Erik Thiele]

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:04:45 +0200
Erik Thiele <erik@thiele-hydraulik.de> wrote:

> hi.
> 
> i am using 
> 
> - gentoo linux.
> - sybase-0.36
> - freetds-0.62.3
> - python 2.3.3
> 
> from this linux machine i am accessing a mssql 7 server on an nt4.0
> windows server.
> 
> i am doing
> 
> db=Sybase.connect('myserver','myuser','mypass','mydb')
> c=db.cursor()
> c.execute('select * from foo where something=@x', {'@x' : "blabla"})
> 
> it sais:
> 
> Sybase.DatabaseError: ------
> Must declare the variable '@x'
> 
> ??? i do not understand. why is this so?
> 
> i am trying to use python DB API 2.0. but i find the documentation for
> this not very sufficient. there seems to be no good example at all on
> the net.
> 
> questions never covered and done wrong in almost all examples is the
> issue with escaping the datatypes. some really do
> c.execute("select from where x="%s"" % mystring)
> this is of course fatal since mystring may contain closing " and then
> sql commands.
> 
> anyway... how do i get the module to work?

hmmmm. still i have no working example.

there is this python-sybase module and i cannot get it to work. there
must be something wrong here. Could you give me a query that runs on the
above configuration? i want to create the query dynamically. i.e. no
static query, but instead some query like the one above.

is the python-sybase module broken?


-- 
Erik Thiele