Re: problem creating users via pythons script

From: Volkan YAZICI <yazicivo(at)ttnet(dot)net(dot)tr>
To: Timothy Smith <timothy(at)open-networks(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: problem creating users via pythons script
Date: 2006-07-19 12:50:15
Message-ID: 20060719125015.GC1367@alamut.tdm.local
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On Jul 19 10:40, Timothy Smith wrote:
> Volkan YAZICI wrote:
> >On Jul 19 10:02, Timothy Smith wrote:
> >
> >>cur.execute("""CREATE USER %s WITH PASSWORD %s IN GROUP %s
> >>""",(StaffUserName,NewPassword,StaffGroup))
> >>
> >>produces this error
> >>
> >>ERROR: syntax error at or near "'bob.smith'" at character 13
> >>
> >
> >IIRC, per Python DB-API PEP, the DB adapter you use try to escape and
> >quote any parameter you specified. Please try to use python parameters,
> >that are "% (param1, param2, ...)", only for values; not for any other

Edit: «% (param1, param2, ...)» part must be replaced with
«"query_str", param1, param2, ...»

> >place in the query string.
> >
> >To summarize, you can only use parameters for values, not keys.
>
> ...
> ah ok so how do i do it :/

Just don't pass username as parameter to Cursor.execute(), for instance:

cur.execute("CREATE USER %s WITH PASSWORD %s IN GROUP %s"
% (StaffUserName, NewPassword, StaffGroup))

Regards.

P.S. Please don't forget to CC mailing list next time. Also, -interface
ml is more appropriate for these kind of questions.

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