Question

I have this guy:

query = 'DELETE FROM boyd.%s WHERE teamid = %s AND id = %s AND year = %s' % (statstype, '%s', '%s', '%s')
self.executequery(query, values[0:3])

Which strikes me as ugly. The first %s is actually supplied by the variable, the other three are bound variables: do I really need to go % (statstype, '%s', '%s', '%s')? Is there a more… pythonic approach here?

Answer 1

If you use double %% signs, one % will still remain after string interpolation:

query = 'DELETE FROM boyd.%s WHERE teamid = %%s AND id = %%s AND year = %%s' % (statstype)
self.executequery(query, values[0:3])