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From: "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@PyGreSQL.org>
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To: "Alastair G. Hogge" <agh@tpg.com.au>,
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Subject: Re: Seeking PyGreSQL help
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 12:44:15 -0400
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On Tuesday 05 August 2003 08:53, Alastair G. Hogge wrote:
> In pyhton?
> temp = "hello"
>
> >>> db.query("INSERT INTO test VALUES (temp, NULL)")
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> _pg.error: ERROR:  Attribute "temp" not found

Right.  That's the error.  You are trying to pass a Python variable name to 
the PostgreSQL backend.  Go to the Python page and look up formatting with 
the '%' operator.

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D'Arcy J.M. Cain
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