Question

I have a list of ids in python. For example:

x = [1,2,3,4,5,6]

And i want to select a list of records in my (mysql ) data-base under the condition that the ids of these records are in x. something like below:

SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE id IN x

but I don’t know who I can do this in python. I have seen some examples using %s in their sql string. However this does not work when the variable is a list. does anyone know how I can do this?
Thanks

Answer 1

Try something like this:

'(%s)' % ','.join(map(str,x))

This will give you a string that you could use to send to MySql as a valid IN clause:

(1,2,3,4,5,6)