Python String Formats with SQL Wildcards and LIKE

Question

I\'m having a hard time getting some sql in python to correctly go through MySQLdb. It\'s pythons string formatting that is killing me.

My sql statement is using the

Answer 1

It's not about string formatting but the problem is how queries should be executed according to db operations requirements in Python (PEP 249)

try something like this:

sql = "SELECT column FROM table WHERE col1=%s AND col2=%s" 
params = (col1_value, col2_value)
cursor.execute(sql, params)

here are some examples for psycog2 where you have some explanations that should also be valid for mysql (mysqldb also follows PEP249 dba api guidance 2.0: here are examples for mysqldb)