I have a python script that reads raw movie text files into an sqlite database.
I use re.escape(title) to add escape chars into the strings to make them db safe before executing the inserts.
Why does this not work:
In [16]: c.execute("UPDATE movies SET rating = '8.7' WHERE name='\'Allo\ \'Allo\!\"\ \(1982\)'")
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- OperationalError Traceback (most recent call last)
/home/rajat/Dropbox/amdb/<ipython console> in <module>()
OperationalError: near "Allo": syntax error
Yet this works (removed \' in two places) :
In [17]: c.execute("UPDATE movies SET rating = '8.7' WHERE name='Allo\ Allo\!\"\ \(1982\)'") Out[17]: <sqlite3.Cursor object at 0x9666e90>
I can't figure it out. I also can't ditch those leading quotes because they're actually part of the movie title. Thank you.