Question

I have following query,

SELECT UNIX_TIMESTAMP() - UNIX_TIMESTAMP(rc_timestamp) AS LAG_TIME FROM recentchanges ORDER BY rc_timestamp DESC LIMIT 1

In my python code I am trying to get it to convert into seconds, but what I am currently getting is following:

{'LAG_TIME': 32L}

I tried with utf but results is same.

getLagTime = ur"""SELECT UNIX_TIMESTAMP() - UNIX_TIMESTAMP(rc_timestamp) AS LAG_TIME FROM recentchanges ORDER BY rc_timestamp DESC LIMIT 1"""
cursor.execute(getLagTime)
lagTime = cursor.fetchall()
for time in lagTime:
    print time
    print unicode(time['LAG_TIME'], 'utf-8', error='strict')

Answer 1

I guess you already have the answer: 32 seconds. Don’t get confused by the “L”. It tells you, that this is a long value, and not an int.