Escaping chars in Python and sqlite

Question

I have a python script that reads raw movie text files into an sqlite database.

I use re.escape(title) to add escape chars into the strings to make them db safe befo

Answer 1

I use re.escape(title) to add escape chars into the strings to make them db safe

Note that re.escape makes a string re-safe -- nothing to do with making it db safe. Rather, as @Donal says, what you need is the parameter substitution concept of the Python DB API -- that makes things "db safe" as you need.