How to properly escape strings when manually building SQL queries in SQLAlchemy?

Question

I am using SQLAlchemy to connect to different databases in Python, but not with the ORM support as this cannot be implemented due to several reasons.

Mainly I do build a

Answer 1

You should not try to implement your own escaping, but should instead use SQLAlchemy's builtin method:

sql = 'select * from foo where fieldname = :name'
result = connection.execute(sql, name = myvar)