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

Try to use format. If you have a string, against use %s you can use {}.

sql = "SELECT name FROM products WHERE rating > {0} AND category like 'Automation %'"
slq = sql.format(3)
cursor.execute(sql);

This is much better and compliance to new versions of python. And, plus, you can get annoyed of % in your query.

Answer 2

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. . .