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MySQL for Python

You're reading from   MySQL for Python Integrating MySQL and Python can bring a whole new level of productivity to your applications. This practical tutorial shows you how with examples and explanations that clarify even the most difficult concepts.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849510189
Length 440 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Albert Lukaszewski Albert Lukaszewski
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

MySQL for Python
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
1. Getting Up and Running with MySQL for Python FREE CHAPTER 2. Simple Querying 3. Simple Insertion 4. Exception Handling 5. Results Record-by-Record 6. Inserting Multiple Entries 7. Creating and Dropping 8. Creating Users and Granting Access 9. Date and Time Values 10. Aggregate Functions and Clauses 11. SELECT Alternatives 12. String Functions 13. Showing MySQL Metadata 14. Disaster Recovery Index

Changing insertion values dynamically


Just because user input is not valid, it does not mean we should scrap it and ask the user for a new input. Rather, we can accept an entire statement, assign what values will fit and come back to the user to correct data that will not.

To do this, we need to import the string module and define three functions to do the following:

  1. Validate the name column.

  2. Validate the price column.

  3. Query the user for a correction.

After defining the functions, we pass the user values to the first two functions, we then pass the user values in turn to the first two functions which then calls the third function only if the data does not check out.

Simply append string to the import line for the program or add the following line below it:

import string

Now, let's define the three functions.

Validating the value of name

This function needs to do the following:

  1. Receive the value of the name column.

  2. Check whether it is all letters—for example, no fish has numbers in its market name.

  3. Call...

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