I am trying to read entries from mysql db in python using pymysql. Entries in database are in regional languages.
e.g. 74 погода is one such entry
I have written code like this:
import pymysql
conn = pymysql.connect(ip, user, pass, db, charset="utf8")
curr = conn.cursor()
curr.execute("select val from my_table")
r = cur.fetchone()
>>> r
('74 ??????',)
>>> r[0].encode("utf-8").strip()
'74 \xd0\xbf\xd0\xbe\xd0\xb3\xd0\xbe\xd0\xb4\xd0\xb0'
Here I am not getting the data as it that is present in the database.
This is because MySQLdb normally tries to encode everythin to latin-1. This can be fixed by executing the following commands right after you've etablished the connection:
db.set_character_set('utf8')
dbc.execute('SET NAMES utf8;')
dbc.execute('SET CHARACTER SET utf8;')
dbc.execute('SET character_set_connection=utf8;')
db is the result of MySQLdb.connect(), and dbc is the result of `db.cursor()*.
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I'm trying to select from Mysql a utf8 string that contains an emojii
and instead of emojii I'm getting question mark
import MySQLdb
db=MySQLdb.connect(host='host', user='user', passwd='password', db='db', charset='utf8mb4', use_unicode=True)
c=db.cursor()
c.execute("SET NAMES UTF8")
c.execute("SELECT message FROM chat WHERE...")
res = c.fetchone()[0]
#the res variable should contain '😀234абв'. I checked in database explorer
#saving the res into the file to avoid terminal encodeing issues
with open('test.txt','w',encoding='utf-8-sig') as f:
f.write(res)
#and voila! I'm gettin '?234абв' in the file!!!
My database do uses 'utf8mb4' encoding with collation 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci'.
The mysql connection was initialized with charset='utf8mb4' option.
I did run 'set names utf8'.
I'm using python 3.8.5.
What am I missing here?
And as always, the best way to find a solution is to ask someone. Rubber duck debugging
I figured out that I should use
c.execute("SET NAMES UTF8mb4") instead of c.execute("SET NAMES UTF8")
I'm trying to figure out why I can't access a particular table in a PostgreSQL database using psycopg2. I am running PostgreSQL 11.5
If I do this, I can connect to the database in question and read all the tables in it:
import psycopg2
try:
connection = psycopg2.connect(user = "postgres", #psycopg2.connect() creates connection to PostgreSQL database instance
password = "battlebot",
host = "127.0.0.1",
port = "5432",
database = "BRE_2019")
cursor = connection.cursor() #creates a cursor object which allows us to execute PostgreSQL commands through python source
#Print PostgreSQL version
cursor.execute("""SELECT table_name FROM information_schema.tables
WHERE table_schema = 'public'""")
for table in cursor.fetchall():
print(table)
The results look like this :
('geography_columns',)
('geometry_columns',)
('spatial_ref_sys',)
('raster_columns',)
('raster_overviews',)
('nc_avery_parcels_poly',)
('Zone5e',)
('AllResidential2019',)
#....etc....
The table I am interested in is the last one, 'AllResidential2019'
So I try to connect to it and print the contents by doing the following:
try:
connection = psycopg2.connect(user = "postgres",
#psycopg2.connect() creates connection to PostgreSQL database instance
password = "battlebot",
host = "127.0.0.1",
port = "5432",
database = "BRE_2019")
cursor = connection.cursor() #creates a cursor object which allows us to execute PostgreSQL commands through python source
cursor.execute("SELECT * FROM AllResidential2019;") #Executes a database operation or query. Execute method takes SQL query as a parameter. Returns list of result
record = cursor.fetchall()
print(record)
except (Exception, psycopg2.Error) as error:
print("Error while connecting to PostgreSQL: ", error)
And I get the following error:
Error while connecting to PostgreSQL: relation "allresidential2019" does not exist
LINE 1: SELECT * FROM AllResidential2019;
However, I can successfully connect and get results when attempting to connect to another table in another database I have (this works! and the results are the data in this table):
try:
connection = psycopg2.connect(user = "postgres", #psycopg2.connect() creates connection to PostgreSQL database instance
password = "battlebot",
host = "127.0.0.1",
port = "5432",
database = "ClimbingWeatherApp") . #different database name
cursor = connection.cursor()
cursor.execute("SELECT * FROM climbing_area_info ;")
record = cursor.fetchall()
print(record)
except (Exception, psycopg2.Error) as error:
print("Error while connecting to PostgreSQL: ", error)
I can't figure out why I can retrieve information from one table but not another, using exactly the same code (except names are changes). And I am also not sure how to troubleshoot this. Can anyone offer suggestions?
Your table name is case-sensitive and you have to close it in double quotes:
SELECT * FROM "AllResidential2019";
In Python program it may look like this:
cursor.execute('SELECT * FROM "AllResidential2019"')
or you can use the specialized module SQL string composition:
from psycopg2 import sql
# ...
cursor.execute(sql.SQL("SELECT * FROM {}").format(sql.Identifier('AllResidential2019')))
Note that case-sensitive Postgres identifiers (i.e. names of a table, column, view, function, etc) unnecessarily complicate simple matters. I would advise you not to use them.
Likely, the reason for your issue is Postgres' quoting rules which adheres to the ANSI SQL standard regarding double quoting identifiers. In your table creation, you likely quoted the table:
CREATE TABLE "AllResidential2019" (
...
)
Due to case sensitivity of at least one capital letter, this requires you to always quote the table when referencing the table. Do remember: single and double quotes have different meanings in SQL as opposed to being mostly interchangeable in Python.
SELECT * FROM "AllResidential2019"
DELETE FROM "AllResidential2019" ...
ALTER TABLE "AllResidential2019" ...
It is often recommended, if your table, column, or other identifier does not contain special characters, spaces, or reserved words, to always use lower case or no quotes:
CREATE TABLE "allresidential2019" (
...
)
CREATE TABLE AllResidential2019 (
...
)
Doing so, any combination of capital letters will work
SELECT * FROM ALLRESIDENTIAL2019
SELECT * FROM aLlrEsIdEnTiAl2019
SELECT * FROM "allresidential2019"
See further readings on the subject:
Omitting the double quote to do query on PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL naming conventions
Postgres Docs - 4.1.1. Identifiers and Key Words
Don’t use double quotes in PostgreSQL
What is the difference between single and double quotes in SQL?
I was facing the same error in Ubuntu. But in my case, I accidentally added the tables to the wrong database, which was in turn owned by the root postgres user instead of the new postgres user that I had created for my flask app.
I'm using a SQL file to create and populate the tables. This is the command that I used to be able to create these tables using a .sql file. This allows you to specify the owner of the tables as well as the database in which they should be created:
sudo -u postgres psql -U my_user -d my_database -f file.sql -h localhost
You will then be prompted for my_users's password.
sudo -u postgres is only necessary if you are running this from a terminal as a the root user. It basically runs the psql ... command as the postgres user.
I'm new to mySQL and Python.
I have code to insert data from Python into mySQL,
conn = MySQLdb.connect(host="localhost", user="root", passwd="kokoblack", db="mydb")
for i in range(0,len(allnames)):
try:
query = "INSERT INTO resumes (applicant, jobtitle, lastworkdate, lastupdate, url) values ("
query = query + "'"+allnames[i]+"'," +"'"+alltitles[i]+"',"+ "'"+alldates[i]+"'," + "'"+allupdates[i]+"'," + "'"+alllinks[i]+"')"
x = conn.cursor()
x.execute(query)
row = x.fetchall()
except:
print "error"
It seems to be working fine, because "error" never appears. Instead, many rows of "1L" appear in my Python shell. However, when I go to MySQL, the "resumes" table in "mydb" remains completely empty.
I have no idea what could be wrong, could it be that I am not connected to MySQL's server properly when I'm viewing the table in MySQL? Help please.
(I only use import MySQLdb, is that enough?)
use commit to commit the changes that you have done
MySQLdb has autocommit off by default, which may be confusing at first
You could do commit like this
conn.commit()
or
conn.autocommit(True) Right after the connection is created with the DB
I am trying to add all words of a text file into a column such that one row has one word. my code is as :
import MySQLdb
conn = MySQLdb.connect (host = "localhost",user = "root", db = "pcorpora")
c = conn.cursor()
file = open('C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\english.txt', 'r')
words = list(file.read())
i=0
for value in words:
c.execute("""INSERT INTO tenglish (`english words`) VALUES (%s)""" % (words[i]) i=i+1)`
The code run without error but table is still empty.
You should use commit
c.execute("""INSERT INTO tenglish (`english words`) VALUES (%s)""" % (value))
con.commit()
This method sends a COMMIT statement to the MySQL server, committing
the current transaction. Since by default Connector/Python does not
autocommit, it is important to call this method after every
transaction that modifies data for tables that use transactional
storage engines.
I am testing Python and Mysql in that i am able to create and delete table's but i am unable to insert data in them.I searched stackoverflow and mostly they suggest to use
commit()
So i used it and even after i used the data is not inserted into the database.Please help me.
This is the code i use it creates the table but not inserting data
import MySQLdb
db = MySQLdb.connect("localhost","user","password")
cxn = MySQLdb.connect(db='test')
cursor = cxn.cursor()
cursor.execute("CREATE TABLE users(name VARCHAR(40),id VARCHAR(40))")
cursor.execute("INSERT INTO users(name,id) VALUES('John','1')")
db.commit()
print "Opertion completed successfully"
Are db and cxn connections to the same database?
You should establish your connection using following:
db = MySQLdb.connect(host="localhost",
db="test",
user="user",
passwd="password")
The cursor should then be derived from this connection via:
cursor = db.cursor()
I would hazard that your issue is coming from the ambiguity between db and cxn.