Question

I am storing information about files that I read in from files in binary. I am using mysql to store the information. One of the columns is the absolute path of the file. This code will run periodically so I want to check that this specific file hasn’t been parsed before.

I am trying to execute:

path = os.path.join(root,f)

sql = "SELECT * FROM %s WHERE Filepath = %s" % ("tntfiles", path)

But to no avail. I get an error saying: “1064, “You have an error in your SQL syntax”

I’ve tried doing the same query with ` around the path:

path = "`" + path + "`'"

but I get: “1064, “You have an error in your SQL syntax”

I’m not sure what I’m doing wring because I can execute a similar query with

"SELECT * FROM %s WHERE Id = %s" % ("tntfiles","1") 

and it works just fine.

Thanks

Answer 1

MySQL needs to have strings surrounded by ‘ or ” – so just change the code to

"SELECT * FROM %s WHERE Filepath = '%s'" % ("tntfiles", path)