Re: Newbie problem inserting into MySQL

[Edwin.Madari]

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Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 11:55 AM
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Subject: Newbie problem inserting into MySQL
Hi All

I have started a little pet project to learn python and MySQL. The
project involves figuring out all the combinations for a 5 number
lottery and storing the data in a MySQL file.

The file looks like this;
+----------+---------------------+------+-----+---------
+----------------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default |
Extra |
+----------+---------------------+------+-----+---------
+----------------+
| lottryid | int(11) | NO | PRI | NULL |
auto_increment |
| lottryno | char(10) | YES | | NULL
| |
| no1 | tinyint(3) unsigned | NO | | NULL
| |
| no2 | tinyint(3) unsigned | NO | | NULL
| |
| no3 | tinyint(3) unsigned | NO | | NULL
| |
| no4 | tinyint(3) unsigned | NO | | NULL
| |
| no5 | tinyint(3) unsigned | NO | | NULL
| |
| nosum | tinyint(3) unsigned | NO | | NULL
| |
| nohits | int(10) unsigned | YES | | NULL
| |
+----------+---------------------+------+-----+---------
+----------------+

The code looks as follows;
#!/usr/lib/env python

import MySQLdb
import datetime

db = MySQLdb.Connection(host="localhost", user="lenyel",
passwd="lsumnler", \
db="lottery")

cursor = db.cursor()

cursor.execute('delete from littlelottery')

listofrec = []

tupcnt = 0
print "first tuple created"
for a in xrange(1,36):
for b in xrange(2,37):
for c in xrange(3,38):
for d in xrange(4,39):
for e in xrange(5,40):
tupcnt += 1
thekey = ('%02i%02i%02i%02i%02i' % (a,b,c,d,e))
mysum = a + b + c + d + e
rectuple = tupcnt, thekey, a, b, c, d, e, mysum, 0
listofrec.append(rectuple)
if tupcnt % 10000 == 0:
print "beginnign of mysql write"
print datetime.datetime.now().time()
cursor.executemany('''insert into
littlelottery
values (?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?)''', listofrec)
db.close()
print "end of mysql write"
print datetime.datetime.now().time()
os._exit()

print "insert into mysql completed"

i get the following error on insert;
raise errorclass, errorvalue
TypeError: not all arguments converted during string formatting
Script terminated.

Do I have to covert all of the fields in the tuple records to string
or what?

Len Sumnler
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statement prepared first and executed many times with exectemany - db API http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/
inline statemets can be exeucuted only.

hope that helps
Edwin

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