Re: problem with invalid characters

> >>i'm wondering why i get the following error witht he code below
> >>i'm guessing it's probably somethign very simple i'm goign wrong, most 
> >>likely to do with my new line escapes \
> >>if there is a better way of formatting my query to fix this i'm all ears.
> >>   
> >>
> >consider using
> >
> >query = """
> >... any formatting you want
> >"""
> >
> >No \ needed.
> >
> >Karsten
> > 
> >
> ok i did that b ut i still get the error
> 
> cur.execute("""CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION week_num ( date )
>  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/pyPgSQL/PgSQL.py", line 
> 3072, in execute
>    raise OperationalError, msg
> libpq.OperationalError: ERROR:  syntax error at or near "20040701" at 
> character 92
The error seems to be in the first function declaration. In
there you have the %s *inside* the actual function body. I
doubt that pyPgSQL knows about the proper quoting rules for
that case, eg quotes need to be doubled at least, even tripled
or quadrupled in some special cases.

Karsten
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