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insert dictionaries as rows in sqlite table

I have dictionaries like this:
{'id': 8, 'name': 'xyzzy', 'done': False}
the table is already created with the correct column names (keys of the dictionary). How can I insert the values in the respective columns? I want to create a new row for each dictionary.
Note that for 'done' the type defined is originally Integer since sqlite does not offer bool type.
cur = connection().cursor()
query = "insert .... tablename"

In Python, database cursors accept two parameters:
an SQL statement as a string: the statement may contain placeholders instead of some values to handle cases where the values are not known until runtime.
a collection of values to be inserted into the SQL statement. These values replace the placeholders in the SQL statement when it is executed.
Placeholders may be positional or named:
# Positional placeholders: the order of values should match the order of
# placeholders in the statement. Values should be contained with
# a tuple or list, even if there is only one.
cur.execute("""SELECT * FROM tbl WHERE name = ? AND age = ?""", ('Alice', 42))
# Named placeholders: values and placeholders are matched by name, order
# is irrelevant. Values must be contained within a mapping (dict) of
# placeholders to values.
cur.execute(
"""SELECT * FROM tbl WHERE name = :name AND age = :age""",
{'age': 42, 'name': 'Alice'}
)
You can dictionary to cursor execute and it will do the right thing as long as the values placeholders in the SQL statement used the :named format (that is, the dict key prefixed by a colon ":").
conn = sqlite3.connect()
cur = conn.cursor()
stmt = """INSERT INTO mytable (id, name, done) VALUES (:id, :name, :done)"""
cur.execute(stmt, {'id': 8, 'name': 'xyzzy', 'done': False})
# Call commit() on the connection to "save" the data.
conn.commit()
This method ensures that values are correctly quoted before being inserted into the database and protects against SQL injection attacks.
See also the docs

You could use .format() method to insert into a query string however this is much more straightforward.
dic = {'id': 8, 'name': 'xyzzy', 'done': False}
cur.execute("INSERT INTO tablename VALUES (:id,:name,:done)",{"id" : dic["id"],"name" : dic["name"],"done" : dic["done"]})

How to insert a list containing values seperated by comma into MySQL database using python

I have to insert a list having integer values into a column of MySQL database table using Python. First I tried
cur.execute("insert into time_Interval (name, time_interval_list) values (%s, %s)",\
# (user_name, interval_list))
Where "interval_list" is the list variable having values that I want to insert into "time_interval_list" column of "time_Interval" table. Code is working but does not insert the values. Then I tried this solution changing the code as
var_string = ','.join('?' * len(interval_list))
cur.execute("insert into time_Interval (name, time_interval_list) values (%s, %s)",\
(user_name, var_string))
Again, code was working fine but inserts a list of question mark. I am unable to find the solution.
How to do this correctly. Any suggestion will be appreciated

Try changing
var_string = ','.join('?' * len(interval_list))
to
var_string = ','.join(interval_list)

The following code helped me bulk insert data into a database table using Python.
You can first create a tuple of tuples from the data you want to insert as follows
var_string = ','.join(cur.mogrify("(%s,%s)", x).decode('utf-8') for x in interval_list)
The interval_list would include both name and time_interval_list values whehn creating the tuple of tuples. Then run exceute command giving the tuple of tuples as input to the values.
cur.execute("INSERT INTO time_Interval (name, time_interval_list) VALUES " + var_string)
This command bulk inserts data into a database table very quickly.

use only variables to model an sqlite table with python

I'm practicing in SQLite and Python. I'm trying to build a TABLE using only user prompts as database objects. After some extensive searches (official documentation says nothing about this kind of syntax-please correct me!) I found this method:
new_table = raw_input('Enter a table name: ')
column = raw_input('Enter column name: ')
cur.execute(''' CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS {tn} ({col})'''\
.format(tn = new_table, col = column))
It works very nice and I find it intuitive. My problem is with INSERT INTO syntax. While the following code works ok:
cur.execute("INSERT INTO {tn} ({col}) VALUES (?)", ('goodmorning')\
.format(tn=new_table, col=column))
This code below, won't work:
insdata = raw_input('Insert data for column: ')
cur.execute("INSERT INTO {tn} ({col}) VALUES (?)", (insdata,)\
.format(tn=new_table, col=column))
and fails with error: 'tuple' object has no attribute format.
Question is: what is the proper syntax to assign insdata value to SQLite VALUES?

If you write this is a slightly clearer fashion, you'll see what's going on:
cur.execute(
"INSERT INTO {tn} ({col}) VALUES (?)",
(insdata,).format(tn=new_table, col=column)
)
You're not formatting the string, you're formatting the a tuple of arguments. Instead, you want:
cur.execute(
"INSERT INTO {tn} ({col}) VALUES (?)".format(tn=new_table, col=column),
(insdata,)
)
or perhaps a little more clearly :
sql = "INSERT INTO {tn} ({col}) VALUES (?)".format(tn=new_table, col=column)
cur.execute(sql, (insdata,))
In this case your line continuation character is not needed at all (since you're inside a function call) but if it were needed it would make much more sense to position it between arguments rather than between an object and the method invocation on the object.

I think you are invoking format method of tuple (which appears not to have one) instead of a string with SQL query:
cur.execute("INSERT INTO {tn} ({col}) VALUES ({val})".format(tn=new_table,col=column,val='goodmorning'))

psycopg2: Insert a numpy array of strings into an PostgreSQL table

Please consider me to be a complete novice with psycopg2. My aim is to insert a 1D numpy array of dtype object (where the elements are only strings) into a postgresQL table. My main program saves the fields as strings in the numpy array. I then want to add each separate element to a column in the postgresqL table (or if you prefer, the the 1d Array is one row). Please note, the actual array has 36 elements! I need a method to put them all in.
I am using the cur.execute command although I believe there is some problem with the string conversion.
Array=np.empty(3,dype=object)
Array[0]='Hello'
Array[1]='Tea?'
Array[2]='Bye'
statement= "INSERT INTO testlog (field1,field2,field3) VALUES (%s)" #Etc.
cur.execute(statement,Array)
I get error:
cur.execute(statement,Array)
TypeError: not all arguments converted during string formatting
Also tried:
cur.executemany('INSERT INTO testlog VALUES ( %s )', [[v] for v in Array ]
Thanks

Your statement should contain place holder for all values:
statement= "INSERT INTO testlog (field1,field2,field3) VALUES (%s, %s, %s)"
For Example:
=# create table testlog (field1 varchar(50), field2 varchar(50), field3 varchar(50))`;
then in the python shell (note dtype not dype:
Array=np.empty(3,dtype=object)
Array[0]='Hello'
Array[1]='Tea?'
Array[2]='Bye'
sql = "INSERT INTO testlog (field1, field2, field3) VALUES (%s, %s, %s)"
cur.execute(sql, [f for f in Array])
conn.commit()
And in DB:
select * from testlog;
field1 | field2 | field3
--------+--------+--------
Hello | Tea? | Bye
(1 row)

MySQL statement in Python: Variables don't work

I have a problem with MySQL and Python's MySQLdb when I try to INSERT more than one variable.
I have a table wordurl with three fields. The first one is an auto_increment ID, second and third should hold the values. Second and third fields are named word_id and url_id.
This is the code.
cursor.execute("INSERT INTO wordurl (word_id, url_id) VALUES (%s, %s)", (word_temp_id, url_temp_id))
When I try to INSERT only one value the code works, two not.
Error message:
(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 '),), (('2',),))' at line 1")
I also tried it with tripple ticks around the statement, the variables with and without bracket, without the field names and with the first id field included. I also tried with C-style-printf-stuff % (which isn't clever!). Nothing worked.
And you, glorious people on stackoverflow, you are my last hope :)
MySQL-Server is 5.5.9 on FreeBSD 8.2. Python version is 2.7:82508 on OSX Lion
Thanks in advance!
Steffen
UPDATE: I use cursor.fetchall() and cursor.fetchone() to get the IDs. Maybe this information is important.

Regarding your update:
AFAIK:
fetchall() returns a tuple with tuples inside. Those tuples inside are what you would get from fetchone(). You can image it like
fetchall() = (fetchone(), fetchtwo(), ...)
And fetchone also returns a tuple which has the actual variable values. This is why you can't simply insert the return value of fetchall().
Just to clarify: the insert statement you pasted, look like this when you fill in the value for max_price:
c.execute("""SELECT spam, eggs, sausage FROM breakfast WHERE price < %s""", (5,))
so the first %s is replaced with the first element of the tuple (5). Your insert statement looks like this:
cursor.execute("INSERT INTO wordurl (word_id, url_id) VALUES (%s, %s)", (((233L,),), ((3L,),)))
I can't make it more clear.

Did you try this:
cursor.execute("INSERT INTO wordurl (word_id, url_id) VALUES ('%s', '%s')" %(word_temp_id, url_temp_id))
It depends on what variables you're trying to insert, but on strings this is needed.
Notice the difference:
>>> word_temp_id = "bla1"
>>> url_temp_id = "bla2"
>>> query = "INSERT INTO wordurl (word_id, url_id) VALUES (%s, %s)" %(word_temp_id, url_temp_id)
>>> print query
INSERT INTO wordurl (word_id, url_id) VALUES (bla1, bla2)
>>> query = "INSERT INTO wordurl (word_id, url_id) VALUES ('%s', '%s')" %(word_temp_id, url_temp_id)
>>> print query
INSERT INTO wordurl (word_id, url_id) VALUES ('bla1', 'bla2')