Re: I wish I could pass bound variables as a dictionary not a list

From: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: psycopg(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: "W(dot) Matthew Wilson" <matt(at)tplus1(dot)com>
Subject: Re: I wish I could pass bound variables as a dictionary not a list
Date: 2011-07-20 00:33:48
Message-ID: 201107191733.48456.adrian.klaver@gmail.com
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On Tuesday, July 19, 2011 5:24:06 pm W. Matthew Wilson wrote:
> Every once in a while, I have to write a big gnarly query like
>
> cursor.execute("""
> select *
> from table1
> where (%s) > 99
> and ...
> """,
>
> [a, a, b, b, c, c, a, a, b])
>
> The point being that I have to repeat lots of parameters because I use
> them in several where-clauses.
>
> It would make these queries vastly easier to read and debug if I could
> pass in bound variables as a dictionary, rather than as a tuple.
>
> Is this possible?

Yes
See here:
http://www.initd.org/psycopg/docs/usage.html#query-parameters

>
> Matt

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