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Date:      Thu, 9 Feb 2017 09:30:04 -0800
From:      Karl Young <karly@kipshouse.org>
To:        DTD <doug@safeport.com>
Cc:        python@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: MySQLdb question
Message-ID:  <20170209173004.GA2787@mailboy.kipshouse.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1702091045250.13043@bucksport.safeport.com>
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DTD(doug@safeport.com)@2017.02.09 11:11:44 -0500:
> On Thu, 26 Jan 2017, Karl Young wrote:
> 
> >DTD(doug@safeport.com)@2017.01.26 13:23:56 -0500:
> >>I am using py27-MySQLdb-1.2.5 (the default) for FreeBSD 10.3
> >>
> >>  cmd="update ipv4 set s8='%s',s16='%s',s24='%s' where ip='%s'" % (s8,s16,s24,row[0])
> >>  c.execute(cmd)
> >
> >When you say that it isn't working, I assume you mean it's not updating
> >any rows?  To see if that's the case, you can assign the return from
> >execute and print the result, and print it out.
> >
> >numrows = c.execute(cmd)
> >print numrows
> >
> >Or use the rowcount attr of the cursor
> >
> >print c.rowcount
> >
> >If it's showing 0 rows, try running select where
> >
> >select * where ip='1.186.248.251
> >
> >Is it possible you're connecting to a different host/db than you're
> >using for your manual SQL?
> 
> Karl, the issue is InnoDB and perhaps MySQL changes in 5.6.34. Using
> the cli autocommit is on by default and using python it is not. A
> commit must be done after a series of updates. db.close apparently
> does not do a commit. This behavior is somewhat masked in other
> program as a select seems to cause the commit to be done. I don't
> know if db.close should do a commit or not.
> 
> Thanks again for the response.
> 
> Doug

Glad you found the cause, and thanks for posting it.  I could see that
biting me some time.

Look like that's expected behavior, according to this thread:.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/384228/database-does-not-update-automatically-with-mysql-and-python

So your choice would be to enable autocommit or always commit before close.

Regards

-karl



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