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Incorrect date value when loading xlsx file to table using pymysql and xlrd

(Very) beginner python user here. I'm trying to load an xlsx file into a MySQL table using xlrd and pymysql python libraries and I'm getting an error:
pymysql.err.InternalError: (1292, "Incorrect date value: '43500' for column 'invoice_date' at row 1")
The datatype for invoice_date for my table is DATE. The format for this field on my xlsx file is also Date. Things work fine if I change the table datatype to varchar, but I'd prefer to have the data load into my table as a date instead of converting after the fact. Any ideas as to why I'm getting this error? It appears that xlrd or pymysql is reading '2/4/2019' in my xlxs file as '43500' and mysql is rejecting it due to a datatype mismatch.
import xlrd
import pymysql as MySQLdb
# Open workbook and define first sheet
book = xlrd.open_workbook("2019_Complete.xlsx")
sheet = book.sheet_by_index(0)
# MySQL connection
database = MySQLdb.connect (host="localhost", user="root",passwd="password", db="vendor")
# Get cursor, which is used to traverse the databse, line by line
cursor = database.cursor()
# INSERT INTO SQL query
query = """insert into table values (%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s)"""
# Create a For loop to iterate through each row in the XLS file, starting at row 2 to skip the headers
for r in range(1, sheet.nrows):
lp = sheet.cell(r,0).value
pallet_lp = sheet.cell(r,1).value
bol = sheet.cell(r,2).value
invoice_date = sheet.cell(r,3).value
date_received = sheet.cell(r,4).value
date_repaired = sheet.cell(r,5).value
time_in_repair = sheet.cell(r,6).value
date_shipped = sheet.cell(r,7).value
serial_number = sheet.cell(r,8).value
upc = sheet.cell(r,9).value
product_type = sheet.cell(r,10).value
product_description = sheet.cell(r,11).value
repair_code = sheet.cell(r,12).value
condition = sheet.cell(r,13).value
repair_cost = sheet.cell(r,14).value
parts_cost = sheet.cell(r,15).value
total_cost = sheet.cell(r,16).value
repair_notes = sheet.cell(r,17).value
repair_cap = sheet.cell(r,18).value
complaint = sheet.cell(r,19).value
delta = sheet.cell(r,20).value
# Assign values from each row
values = (lp, pallet_lp, bol, invoice_date, date_received, date_repaired, time_in_repair, date_shipped, serial_number, upc, product_type, product_description, repair_code, condition, repair_cost, parts_cost, total_cost, repair_notes, repair_cap, complaint, delta)
# Execute sql Query
cursor.execute(query, values)
# Close the cursor
cursor.close()
# Commit the transaction
database.commit()
# Close the database connection
database.close()
# Print results
print ("")
columns = str(sheet.ncols)
rows = str(sheet.nrows)
print ("I just imported " + columns + " columns and " + rows + " rows to MySQL!")

You can see this answer for a more detailed explanation, but basically Excel treats dates as a number relative to 1899-12-31, and so to convert your date value to an actual date you need to convert that number into an ISO format date which MySQL will accept. You can do that using date.fromordinal and date.isoformat. For example:
dval = 43500
d = date.fromordinal(dval + 693594)
print(d.isoformat())
Output:
2019-02-04

Last value from mySQL in python (Query)

Trying to get the last value from MySQL on Raspberry Pi. No idea why my simple code wont work, gives error at "execute() first" at row = cursor.fetchone().
Here is my code:
# External module imports
import time
import os
import datetime
import MySQLdb
# Connect to mysql
db=MySQLdb.connect("localhost","zikmir","gforce","temp_database")
# Prepair a cursor
cursor=db.cursor()
# Select three columns, id, time and temp from table time_temp
cursor.execute = ("SELECT id, time, temp FROM time_temp")
# ID is autoincremented value, time is in TIME and temp is float
row = cursor.fetchone()
# Trying to store the last result in variable row
# Close cursor and database
cursor.close()
db.close()

watch the = incursor.execute = ("SELECT id, time, temp FROM time_temp"). It should read cursor.execute("SELECT...")

CSV - MYSQL Using Python

After reading several inputs I still can't get this to work.
Most likely I'm doing it all wrong but I've tried several different approaches
What I'm trying to do is extract data from a CSV and add it into my newly created database/table
My csv input look like this
NodeName,NeId,Object,Time,Interval,Direction,NeAlias,NeType,Position,AVG,MAX,MIN,percent_0-5,percent_5-10,percent_10-15,percent_15-20,percent_20-25,percent_25-30,percent_30-35,percent_35-40,percent_40-45,percent_45-50,percent_50-55,percent_55-60,percent_60-65,percent_65-70,percent_70-75,percent_75-80,percent_80-85,percent_85-90,percent_90-95,percent_95-100,IdLogNum,FailureDescription
X13146PAZ,5002,1/11/100,2016-05-16 00:00:00,24,Near End,GE0097-TN01.1,AMM 20PB,-,69684,217287,772,10563,8055,10644,15147,16821,13610,7658,2943,784,152,20,3,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-
...
X13146PAZ,5002,1/11/102,2016-05-16 00:00:00,24,Near End,GE0097-TN01.1,AMM 20PB,-,3056,28315,215,86310,90,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-
...
X13146PAZ,5002,1/11/103,2016-05-16 00:00:00,24,Near End,GE0097-TN01.1,AMM 20PB,-,769,7195,11,86400,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-
The mysql table is created but possibly that might be the issue as some ar varchar columns and some are integer columns
My server is a Ubuntu if that is of any use
My Code
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#Imports
from datetime import date, timedelta
import sys
import MySQLdb as mdb
import csv
import os
#Vars
Yesterday = date.today() - timedelta(1)
#Opening document
RX_Document = open('./reports/X13146PAZ_TN_WAN_ETH_BAND_RX_' + Yesterday.strftime("%Y%m%d") + "_231500.csv" , 'r')
RX_Document_Str = './reports/X13146PAZ_TN_WAN_ETH_BAND_RX_' + Yesterday.strftime("%Y%m%d") + "_231500.csv"
csv_data = csv.reader(file(RX_Document_Str))
con = mdb.connect('localhost', 'username', 'password','tn_rx_utilization');
counter = 0
for row in csv_data:
if counter == 0:
print row
continue
counter = 1
if counter == 1:
cur = con.cursor()
cur.execute('INSERT INTO RX_UTIL(NodeName, NeId, Object, Time, Interval1,Direction,NeAlias,NeType,Position,AVG,MAX,MIN,percent_5-10,percent_10-15,percent_15-20,percent_20-25,percent_25-30,percent_30-35,percent_35-40,percent_40-45,percent_45-50,percent_50-55,percent_55-60,percent_60-65,percent_65-70,percent_70-75,percent_75-80,percent_80-85,percent_85-90,percent_90-95,percent_95-100,IdLogNum,FailureDescription)' 'VALUES("%s","%s","%s","%s","%s","%s","%s","%s","%s","%s","%s","%s","%s","%s","%s","%s","%s","%s","%s","%s","%s","%s","%s","%s","%s","%s","%s","%s","%s","%s","%s","%s","%s","%s")',tuple(row[:34]))
con.commit()
#cur.execute("SELECT VERSION()")
#ver = cur.fetchone()
con.commit()
con.close()

You should not put the placeholder %s in quotes ":
cur.execute('''INSERT INTO RX_UTIL(NodeName, NeId, Object, Time, Interval1,Direction,
NeAlias,NeType,Position,AVG,MAX,MIN,"percent_5-10","percent_10-15",
"percent_15-20","percent_20-25","percent_25-30","percent_30-35",
"percent_35-40","percent_40-45","percent_45-50","percent_50-55",
"percent_55-60","percent_60-65","percent_65-70","percent_70-75",
"percent_75-80","percent_80-85","percent_85-90","percent_90-95",
"percent_95-100",IdLogNum,FailureDescription)
VALUES(%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,
%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s)''', tuple(row[:33]))

You are missing Percent_0-5 from your Insert
Remove the quotes from the %s references, this needs to be in String format, but the underlying data type will be passed.
There may be issues with datatype resulting from the csv reader. Have Python eval() the csv data to alter type as an INT. Here is some more information from another post:
Read data from csv-file and transform to correct data-type
cur.execute('INSERT INTO RX_UTIL(NodeName, NeId, Object, Time, Interval1,Direction,NeAlias,NeType,Position,AVG,MAX,MIN,percent_0-5,percent_5-10,percent_10-15,percent_15-20,percent_20-25,percent_25-30,percent_30-35,percent_35-40,percent_40-45,percent_45-50,percent_50-55,percent_55-60,percent_60-65,percent_65-70,percent_70-75,percent_75-80,percent_80-85,percent_85-90,percent_90-95,percent_95-100,IdLogNum,FailureDescription)' 'VALUES(%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s)',tuple(row[:34]))

Python: Deleting mySQL rows that are x many days old

Im using a raspberry pi with the rasbpian wheezy distribution running headless. I currently have a cronjob that runs a python script to put the current temperature and datetime in a mySQL database
(table: tempLog, attributes: datetime, temperature float(5,2)).
I want to delete rows that are say 5 days (num days is arbitrary) old and i'm having trouble accomplishing this in python. Here is the code, its not long.
import os
import time
import datetime
import glob
import MySQLdb
from time import strftime
from datetime import timedelta
from datetime import date
# Variables for MySQL
db = MySQLdb.connect(host="localhost", user="root",passwd="password", db="temp_database")
cur = db.cursor()
del_basedate = datetime.datetime.today() - timedelta(1)
# DATE_SUB(NOW() , INTERVAL 1 DAY)
try:
cur.execute("DELETE FROM tempLog WHERE datetime.date.day = del_basedate")
print "Delete successful"
except:
print "An error occured in: deleteRows.py"
finally:
cur.close()
db.close()
I had to do sever import from, because it kept throwing errors of objects not existing.

You need to learn about coding context:
del_basedate = datetime.datetime.today() - timedelta(1)
^^----python variable
cur.execute("DELETE FROM tempLog WHERE datetime.date.day = del_basedate")
text string with the letters "d", "e", "l", "_", etc... --- ^^^
Python isn't magical, and will NOT rummage around in a string to see if any of the text in that string LOOKS like a python variable. So you're effectively telling your DB to compare datetime.date.day against some unknown/undefined del_basedate field.
Try
cur.execute("DELETE FROM tempLog WHERE datetime.date.day = '" + del_basedate + "'")
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Note the extra quotes within the string. Without them, you'd be comparing against = 2016-02-18, which is a math operation, and is parsed/executed by the database as = 1996

insert into a mysql database timestamp

I have a part in my python script that I need to insert some data into a table on a mysql database example below:
insert_data = "INSERT into test (test_date,test1,test2) values (%s,%s,%s)"
cur.execute(insert_data,(test_date,test1,test2))
db.commit()
db.close()
I have a couple of questions what is incorrect with this syntax and how is possible to change the VALUES to timestamp instead of %s for string? Note the column names in the database are the same as the data stored in the variables in my script.
THanks

try this:
import MySQLdb
import time
import datetime
ts = time.time()
timestamp = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(ts).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
conn = MySQLdb.connect(host= "localhost",
user="root",
passwd="newpassword",
db="db1")
x = conn.cursor()
try:
x.execute("""INSERT into test (test_date,test1,test2) values(%s,%s,%s)""",(timestamp,test1,test2))
conn.commit()
except:
conn.rollback()
conn.close()

Timestamp creating can be done in one line, no need to use time.time(), just:
from datetime import datetime
timestamp = datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')

Simply use the database NOW() function, e.g.
timestamp="NOW()"
insert_data = "INSERT into test (test_date,test1,test2) values (%s,%s,%s)"
cur.execute(insert_data,(test_date,test1,test2,timestamp))
db.commit()
db.close()