Question

This is a follow up to this question I asked earlier:
Why can't I insert into MySQL?

That question solved it partly. Now I’m doing it in Python and it’s not working 🙁

cursor.execute("INSERT INTO life(user_id, utm)  values(%s,PointFromWKB(point(%s,%s)))",the_user_id, utm_easting, utm_northing)

I even did float(utm_easting) and float(utm_northing)

Edit: this is the error:

execute() takes at most 3 arguments (5 given)

Answer 1

From here (pdf):

Following the statement string
argument to execute(), provide a tuple
containing the values to be bound to
the placeholders, in the order they
should appear within the string. If
you have only a single value x,
specify it as (x,) to indicate a
single-element tuple.

tl;dr:

cursor.execute("""INSERT INTO life(user_id, utm) 
    values(%s,PointFromWKB(point(%s,%s)))""", 
    (the_user_id, utm_easting, utm_northing))

Edit: you can alternatively pass a list as execute()‘s second argument.

cursor.execute("""INSERT INTO life(user_id, utm) 
    values(%s,PointFromWKB(point(%s,%s)))""", 
    [the_user_id, utm_easting, utm_northing])