How to escape % in a query using python's sqlalchemy's execute() and pymysql?

Question

My query is:

result = connection.execute(
         \"select id_number from Table where string like \'_stringStart%\' limit 1;\")

gives the

Answer 1

Since this is a literal string, you're better off using a bound parameter here (illustrated using text()):

from sqlalchemy import text

connection.execute(
    text("select * from table where "
         "string like :string limit 1"), 
    string="_stringStart%")