Question

It seems like a typical issue in programming, but i didn’t find nothing usefull in google.
This is the code:

file=open('list.txt','r')
    for line in file:
        cursor.execute("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS \
        %s(id INT(2) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT, \
        entry TEXT NOT NULL)" % line)
    file.close()
    cursor.close()
    db.close()

And this is the error when I try to create a table with single quotes:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 104, in <module>
    entry TEXT NOT NULL)" % line)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/MySQLdb/cursors.py", line 166, in execute
    self.errorhandler(self, exc, value)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/MySQLdb/connections.py", line 35, in defaulterrorhandler
    raise errorclass, errorvalue
_mysql_exceptions.ProgrammingError: (1064, "You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ''Hi 'Buddy!(id INT(2) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT,         entry ' at line 1")

MySQLdb.escape_string(line) dont fix it by the way

Answer 1

I’m not sure why you’re doing that and I think I should suggest re-thinking your schema, but you can escape a table name with backticks `.

# notice the `'s surrounding %s
for line in file:
    cursor.execute("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS \
    `%s`(id INT(2) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT, \
    entry TEXT NOT NULL)" % line)