MySQLdb.cursor.execute can't run multiple queries

Question

We\'re trying to run SQL files containing multiple insert statements as a single query, but it seems rollback fails when any of the statements contain an error.

Answer 1

Using the mysql program via Popen will definitely work, but if you want to just use an existing connection (and cursor), the sqlparse package has a split function that will split into statements. I'm not sure what the compatiblity is like, but I have a script that does:

with open('file.sql', 'rb') as f:
    for statement in sqlparse.split(f.read()):
        if not statement:
            continue
        cur.execute(statement)

It's only ever fed DROP TABLE and CREATE TABLE statements, but works for me.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sqlparse