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pyodbc insert statement gets error message

I am trying to insert value into SQL SERVER using python.
I wrote my python program as below.
import pyodbc
import subprocess
cnx = pyodbc.connect("DSN=myDSN;UID=myUID;PWD=myPassword;port=1433")
runcmd1 = subprocess.check_output(["usbrh", "-t"])[0:5]
runcmd2 = subprocess.check_output(["usbrh", "-h"])[0:5]
cursor = cnx.cursor()
cursor.execute("SELECT * FROM T_TABLE-A;")
cursor.execute('''
INSERT INTO T_TABLE-A (TEMP,RH,DATE,COMPNAME)
VALUES
(runcmd1,runcmd2,GETDATE(),'TEST_Py')
''')
cnx.commit()
Then get error like below.
# python inserttest.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "inserttest.py", line 13, in <module>
''')
pyodbc.ProgrammingError: ('42S22', "[42S22] [FreeTDS][SQL Server]Invalid column name 'runcmd1'. (207) (SQLExecDirectW)")
If I wrote like below, it's OK to insert.
import pyodbc
cnx = pyodbc.connect("DSN=myDSN;UID=myUID;PWD=myPassword;port=1433")
cursor = cnx.cursor()
cursor.execute("SELECT * FROM T_TABLE-A;")
cursor.execute('''
INSERT INTO T_TABLE-A (TEMP,RH,DATE,COMPNAME)
VALUES
(20.54,56.20,GETDATE(),'TEST_P')
''')
cnx.commit()
The command USBRH -t gets temperature and USBRH -h gets humidity. They work well in individual python program.
Does anyone have idea to solve this error?
Thanks a lot in advance.

check the data types returning from these two lines
runcmd1 = subprocess.check_output(["usbrh", "-t"])[0:5]
runcmd2 = subprocess.check_output(["usbrh", "-h"])[0:5]
runcmd1 and runcmd2 should be in 'double' data type since it accepts 20.54.

cursor.execute('''
INSERT INTO T_TABLE-A (TEMP,RH,DATE,COMPNAME)
VALUES
(runcmd1,runcmd2,GETDATE(),'TEST_Py')
''')
won't work because you are embedding the names of the Python variables, not their values. You need to do
sql = """\
INSERT INTO T_TABLE-A (TEMP,RH,DATE,COMPNAME)
VALUES
(?, ?, GETDATE(),'TEST_Py')
"""
cursor.execute(sql, runcmd1, runcmd2)

SynaxError on a SQL command

EDIT: Yup I'm dumb. Missed the typo.
I'm following along with a video in a Udacity course, and getting an error trying to run a SQL command via psycopg2. The code is identical to the instructor's, but mine returns an error and her's doesnt.
import psycopg2
# establish connection to db
connection = psycopg2.connect('dbname=example')
# cursor is essentially an interface that allows you to start
# cuing up work and transactions
cursor = connection.cursor()
# defines SQL transaction
cursor.execute('''
CREATE TABLE table2 (
id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
completed BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFUALT False
);
''')
cursor.execute('INSERT INTO table2 (id, completed) VALUES (1, true);')
# commits the transaction
connection.commit()
# must manually close your session each time one is opened
connection.close()
cursor.close()
Error:
$ python3 demo.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "demo.py", line 11, in <module>
cursor.execute("""
psycopg2.errors.SyntaxError: syntax error at or near "DEFUALT"
LINE 4: completed BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFUALT False

You seem to have made a typo instead of DEFAULT you have written DEFUALT
cursor.execute('''
CREATE TABLE table2 (
id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
completed BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT False
);
''')

How to pass variable for dropping table execution in Python's MySQLdb

With this code I tried to delete a table if it exists. But I need to do it via passing
a variables.
import MySQLdb as mdb
conn = mdb.connect(host='db01.myhost.co.nl,
user='pdbois',
passwd='triplex',
db='myxxx')
cursor = conn.cursor()
# Without passing variables this works OK!
#cursor.execute("""drop table if exists testtable""")
# But this break
table_name = "testtable"
cursor.execute("""drop table if exists %s""",(table_name))
conn.close()
But why the way I do it above breaks by giving this error?
File "test_mysql.py", line 63, in <module>
main()
File "test_mysql.py", line 59, in main
create_table()
File "test_mysql.py", line 25, in create_table
cursor.execute("""drop table if exists %s""",(table_name))
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/MySQLdb/cursors.py", line 174, in execute
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/MySQLdb/connections.py", line 36, in defaulterrorhandler
_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 ''testtable'' at line 1")
What's the right way to do it?
Update:
Another problem is to create a table via parameter.
sql = "create table %s(
first_name char(20) not null,
last_name char(20))" % mdb.escape_string(table_name)
cursor.execute(sql)
It gives `SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal`.

You cannot parameterize the table name, use string formatting and escape the value manually:
cursor.execute("drop table if exists %s" % mdb.escape_string(table_name))

Error in loading database entries into lists

I'm getting the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/pi/Nike/test_two.py", line 43, in <module>
do_query()
File "/home/pi/Nike/test_two.py", line 33, in do_query
for(Product,Bin,Size,Color) in records:
ValueError: too many values to unpack
Code:
def do_query():
connection = sqlite3.connect('test_db.db')
cursor = connection.cursor()
cursor.execute("SELECT * FROM TESTER ORDER BY CheckNum")
records = cursor.fetchall()
for(Product,Bin,Size,Color) in records:
row_1.append(Product)
row_2.append(Bin)
row_3.append(Size)
row_4.append(Color)
connection.commit()
cursor.close()
connection.close()
do_query()
I'm trying to load each column of a table into seperate python list. I am using Python, and sqlite3. Why am I getting this error?

You are using "SELECT *" which will return every column from the table. My guess is that the table in question contains more columns then the 4 you specified.
A better way would actually be specifying in the SQL which columns you want so that your code will not break if columns are added to the database.
Something like "SELECT col1, col2 FROM table"
You can run the sqlite3 tool on the db file and then view the table schema with ".schema <table_name>"

python sqlite3 cursor.execute() with parameters leads to syntax error near ? (paramstyle qmark)

after searching untill madness, i decided to post a question here.
I try to create a sqlite3 database where i'd like to make use of the secure variable substituation function of the cursor.execute(SQL, param) function. My function goes like this:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import sqlite3
def create():
values = ("data")
sql = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ? ( name TEXT, street TEXT, time REAL, age INTEGER )"
con = sqlite3.connect("database.db")
c = con.cursor()
c.execute(sql, values)
con.commit()
c.close()
con.close()
if __name__ = "__main__":
create()
I know that the first argument should be the sql command in form of a string and the second argument must be a tuple of the values which are supposed to be substituted where the ? is in the sql string.
However, when i run the file it returns the following error:
$ ./test.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./test.py", line 21, in <module>
create()
File "./test.py", line 14, in create
c.execute(sql, values)
sqlite3.OperationalError: near "?": syntax error
This also happens when paramstyle is set to named (e.g. the :table form).
I can't spot a syntax error here, so i think that the problem must be caused somewhere in the system. I tested it on an Archlinux and Debian install, both post me the same error.
Now it is up yo you, as I have no idea anymore where to look for the cause.

SQL parameters can only apply to insert data, not table names. That means parameters are not even parsed for DDL statements.
For that you'll have to use string formatting:
sql = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS {} ( name TEXT, street TEXT, time REAL, age INTEGER )".format(*values)

As I understand, your parameter is the table name?
so your command would be
tbl = 'my_table'
sql = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS '%s' ( name TEXT, street TEXT, time REAL, age INTEGER )" % tbl