This is a follow up to this question I asked earlier: Why can't I insert into MySQL?
That question solved it partly. Now I'm doing it in Python and it's not working :(
cursor.execute("INSERT INTO life(user_id, utm) values(%s,PointFromWKB(point(%s,%s)))",the_user_id, utm_easting, utm_northing)
I even did float(utm_easting) and float(utm_northing)
Edit: this is the error:
execute() takes at most 3 arguments (5 given)
From here (pdf):
Following the statement string argument to execute(), provide a tuple containing the values to be bound to the placeholders, in the order they should appear within the string. If you have only a single value x, specify it as (x,) to indicate a single-element tuple.
tl;dr:
cursor.execute("""INSERT INTO life(user_id, utm)
values(%s,PointFromWKB(point(%s,%s)))""",
(the_user_id, utm_easting, utm_northing))
Edit: you can alternatively pass a list as execute()'s second argument.
cursor.execute("""INSERT INTO life(user_id, utm)
values(%s,PointFromWKB(point(%s,%s)))""",
[the_user_id, utm_easting, utm_northing])
This could depend on whatever API you use for SQL calls, but it could be that either:
a) values are in fact not strings and you need to replace %s with appropriate types (%d for integers, for example?), or
b) string values need to be quoted like this: values('%s',PointFromWKB(point('%s','%s')))
%s is the parameter marker used by MySQLdb for any value being passed to the query. You do not need to quote any values; even strings. See here for details: wiki.python.org/moin/DbApiFaqSolved. Put parantheses around my variables.
cursor.execute("INSERT INTO life(user_id, utm) values(%s,PointFromWKB(point(%s,%s)))",(the_user_id, utm_easting, utm_northing))