Python MySQL parameterized query conflicts with % wildcard in LIKE statement

Question

My query on execution of this fails:

cursor.execute(\"SELECT name FROM products WHERE rating > %s AND category like \'Automation %\'\", (3));

Answer 1

You can probably escape it using an extra %:

cursor.execute("SELECT name FROM products WHERE rating > %s AND category like 'Automation %%'", (3));

This apparently works for MySQLdb and I would expect it to work for python-mysql as well. . .