On 6/7/21 9:00 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jun 2021, Adrian Klaver wrote:
>
>> What Philip is suggesting is to use Python only simple script to
>> connect to database and retrieve from table. Something like:
>>
>> import psycopg2
>>
>> con = psycopg2.connect(<connection_str>)
>> cur = con.cursor()
>> cur.execute('select * from activitytypes')
>> rs = cur.fetchall()
>> print(rs)
>
> Adrian,
>
>>>> con = psycopg2.connect(bustrac)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> NameError: name 'bustrac' is not defined
No this is because you did not use an actual connection string e.g:
psycopg2.connect("host=salmo user=rshepard dbname=bustrac")
Instead you used an undefined variable bustrac per the error message:
NameError: name 'bustrac' is not defined
>
> That's because there's a problem with connecting to the database. See my
> reply to Rob's message.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
>
>
>
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Adrian Klaver
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