How can I insert NULL data into MySQL database with Python?

Question

I\'m getting a weird error when inserting some data from a Python script to MySQL. It\'s basically related to a variable being blank that I am inserting. I take it that MyS

Answer 1

if the col1 is char, col2 is int, a trick could be:

insert into table (col1, col2) values (%s, %s) % ("'{}'".format(val1) if val1 else "NULL", val2 if val2 else "NULL");

you do not need to add ' ' to %s, it could be processed before pass value to sql.

this method works when execute sql with session of sqlalchemy, for example session.execute(text(sql))

ps: sql is not tested yet