Re: problem creating users via pythons script

On Jul 19 10:40, Timothy Smith wrote:
> Volkan YAZICI wrote:
> >On Jul 19 10:02, Timothy Smith wrote:
> >
> >>cur.execute("""CREATE USER %s WITH PASSWORD %s IN GROUP %s
> >>""",(StaffUserName,NewPassword,StaffGroup))
> >>
> >>produces this error
> >>
> >>ERROR:  syntax error at or near "'bob.smith'" at character 13
> >>
> >
> >IIRC, per Python DB-API PEP, the DB adapter you use try to escape and
> >quote any parameter you specified. Please try to use python parameters,
> >that are "% (param1, param2, ...)", only for values; not for any other

Edit: «% (param1, param2, ...)» part must be replaced with
      «"query_str", param1, param2, ...»

> >place in the query string.
> >
> >To summarize, you can only use parameters for values, not keys.
>
> ...
> ah ok so how do i do it :/

Just don't pass username as parameter to Cursor.execute(), for instance:

cur.execute("CREATE USER %s WITH PASSWORD %s IN GROUP %s"
            % (StaffUserName, NewPassword, StaffGroup))


Regards.

P.S. Please don't forget to CC mailing list next time. Also, -interface
     ml is more appropriate for these kind of questions.