MySQLdb module, method executemany with anything other than strings?

[olekristianvillabo]

The method cursor.executemany is there in order to avoid multiple calls
to cursor.execute().

I have tried, with success, to do like every single example (that I
have found on the www) on the subject shows, to use a insert statement
on the form:
statement = INSERT INTO table (colA,colB,colC) values (%s,%s,%s)

and pass in a list containing tuples
list = [('bla','bla','bla'),('bla','bla','bla'),('bla','bl a','bla')]

on the form

cursor.executemany(statement,list)

This works fine for all strings, but I have never been able to insert a
single integer or a float using this method. I get an error message
reporting that float (or an int) is required.

Statement is then of course changed to something like
statement = INSERT INTO table (colA,colB,colC) values (%s,%i,%f)
list = [('bla',1,0.65),('bla',3,3.7),('bla',3,0.9)]

Havee anybody experienced similar problems?
Am I doing something wrong?
Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
Here is som real output from the interpreter:

statement = 'insert into testtable3 (url,probability) values (%s,%f)'
l [('url1', 0.98999999999999999), ('url2', 0.89000000000000001)] cursor.executemany(statement,l)

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\MySQLdb\cursors.py", line 181, in
execu
any
self.errorhandler(self, TypeError, msg)
File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\MySQLdb\connections.py", line 33,
in de
lterrorhandler
raise errorclass, errorvalue
TypeError: float argument required

[Steve Holden]

ol****************@gmail.com wrote:

The method cursor.executemany is there in order to avoid multiple calls
to cursor.execute().

I have tried, with success, to do like every single example (that I
have found on the www) on the subject shows, to use a insert statement
on the form:
statement = INSERT INTO table (colA,colB,colC) values (%s,%s,%s)

and pass in a list containing tuples
list = [('bla','bla','bla'),('bla','bla','bla'),('bla','bl a','bla')]

on the form

cursor.executemany(statement,list)

This works fine for all strings, but I have never been able to insert a
single integer or a float using this method. I get an error message
reporting that float (or an int) is required.

Statement is then of course changed to something like
statement = INSERT INTO table (colA,colB,colC) values (%s,%i,%f)
list = [('bla',1,0.65),('bla',3,3.7),('bla',3,0.9)]

Havee anybody experienced similar problems?
Am I doing something wrong?
Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
Here is som real output from the interpreter:

statement = 'insert into testtable3 (url,probability) values (%s,%f)' ^^
That's your problem, right there.l
[('url1', 0.98999999999999999), ('url2', 0.89000000000000001)]
cursor.executemany(statement,l)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\MySQLdb\cursors.py", line 181, in
execu
any
self.errorhandler(self, TypeError, msg)
File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\MySQLdb\connections.py", line 33,
in de
lterrorhandler
raise errorclass, errorvalue
TypeError: float argument required

It's just that you should use "%s" for *all* parameters, no matter what
their type:

conn = db.connect()
curs = conn.cursor()
curs.execute(""" .... create table thingy(
.... f1 char(10) primary key,
.... f2 float)""")
0L l = [('url1', 0.98999999999999999), ('url2', 0.89000000000000001)]
curs.executemany(""" .... insert into thingy (f1, f2) values (%s, %s)""", l)
2L

regards
Steve
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[olekristianvillabo]

I just realised that myself about two minutes ago, but thanks anyway!