Inserting JSON data to sqlite - OperationalError: unrecognized token "{"

Question

I'm doing something like this in my code:

import sqlite3
...
sqlString=company['name']+","+simplejson.dumps(info)
cur.execute("INSERT INTO companyInfo VALUES("+sqlString+")")

but I'm getting the following error: cur.execute("INSERT INTO companyBlobs VALUES("+valueString+")") sqlite3.OperationalError: unrecognized token: "{"

I guess this is a problem with the escaping of the JSON data, but not sure how to fix it. Ideas?

I know what you're saying, but I'm doing a very large number of queries to an API and I need to have everything as JSON before processing the data, so I'm just temporarily storing the JSON in sqlite. — leonsas

MBarsi MBarsi · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-14T19:04:20

try to use parametrized query:

sqlString=company['name']+","+simplejson.dumps(info)
cur.execute("INSERT INTO companyInfo VALUES (?)", (sqlString, ))

this will automatically escape your inputs.

Inserting JSON data to sqlite - OperationalError: unrecognized token "{"

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