On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Daniele Varrazzo
<daniele.varrazzo@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you have parameters in the query, % is used as placeholder prefix.
> You must use %% to include a literal % in the query:
>
> In [14]: cur.execute("""select email_address from customer where
> email_address like '%%' || %s || '%%'""", ('matt',))
>
> or you can add the % to the value instead of the query:
>
> In [17]: cur.execute("""select email_address from customer where
> email_address like %s""", ('%matt%',))
Thanks so much! I'm using the first solution, so that I can just
extract user-submitted data and pass it right in, rather than
prepending and appending '%' on the user data.
Matt
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