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

We could try escaping the percentage character by doubling them like this:

query_to_get_user_name = """ 
SELECT tag.userId, count(user.id) as totalRows FROM user INNER JOIN tag 
ON user.id = tag.userId 
WHERE user.username LIKE '%%%s%%' """ % (user_name,) 

cursor.execute(query_to_get_user_name)