Question

I want to add some data from variables into my database using sqlite library in python. I create a table and then run the sql statement. Here is my simple code:

import sqlite3
db = sqlite3.connect("dbse.sqlite")
cursor= db.cursor()
cursor.execute("CREATE TABLE Myt (Test TEXT)")
variable = ('aaa')
cursor.execute('INSERT INTO Myt VALUES (?)' , variable)
db.commit()

but after running the code, this error comes up:

cursor.execute('INSERT INTO Myt VALUES (?)' , variable)
sqlite3.ProgrammingError: Incorrect number of bindings supplied. The current statement uses 1, and there are 3 supplied.

When I insert a variable that contains a one character value, it works well but when I use a variable with more than one character, it doesn’t work.
I use python 3.2.3 .
Do you have an idea to solve it?

Answer 1

Your variable should be a tuple:

variable = ('aaa',) # Notice the comma

When creating a one-element tuple, you need to use comma at the end. As a side note, bear in mind that using the tuple() method won’t give what you want:

>>> tuple('aaa')
('a', 'a', 'a')
>>> ('aaa',)
('aaa',)