Using a Python dict for a SQL INSERT statement

Question

I am trying to use a dict to do a SQL INSERT. The logic would basically be:

INSERT INTO table (dict.keys()) VALUES dict.values()
         


        

Answer 1

I tried @furicle's solution but it still inputs everything as a string - if your dict is a mixed one then this may not work as you would want it to. I had a similar issue and this is what I came up with - this is only a query builder and you could use it (with changes) to work with any database of your choice. Have a look!

def ins_query_maker(tablename, rowdict):
    keys = tuple(rowdict)
    dictsize = len(rowdict)
    sql = ''
    for i in range(dictsize) :
        if(type(rowdict[keys[i]]).__name__ == 'str'):
            sql += '\'' + str(rowdict[keys[i]]) + '\''
        else:
            sql += str(rowdict[keys[i]])
        if(i< dictsize-1):
            sql += ', '
    query = "insert into " + str(tablename) + " " + str(keys) + " values (" + sql + ")"
    print(query) # for demo purposes we do this
    return(query) #in real code we do this

This is crude and still needs sanity checks, etc, but it works as intended. for a dict:

tab = {'idnumber': 1, 'fname': 'some', 'lname': 'dude', 'dob': '15/08/1947', 'mobile': 5550000914, 'age' : 70.4}

running the query I get the following output

results of query generated by the suite