Insert multiple values in MySQL with Python from an array - mysql

Question

I am trying to insert data from my array into MySQL.
To my big surprise there were not many examples on how to do it if you perform a for-loop for your array, every example that I have found was from an already existing array list.
Thanks to Adrian below, we noticed that I need tuples for my list.
Updated code
connection = mysql.connector.connect(
host='localhost',
database='test',
user='root',
password='pass'
)
query = "INSERT INTO blue (created, published, publisher) VALUES (%s, %s, %s)"
array = []
# The idea here is to get all table rows in the page so you can group the values into rows that are going to be added to MySQL
tr = soup.find_all('tr')
for table_row in tr:
row_data = table_row.find_all('td')
insert_row = []
for data in row_data:
data = re.sub('<[^>]*>', '', str(data))
insert_row.append(data)
array.append(tuple(insert_row))
print(array)
cursor = connection.cursor()
cursor.executemany(query, array)
cursor.commit()
Getting close but at the moment I receive the following
IndexError: Tuple index out of range
mysql.connector.errors.ProgrammingError: Not enough parameters for the SQL statement
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I think you are mixing two ways of solving the problem...
One way is using the executemany method as described in the documentation
query = "INSERT INTO blues (created, published, publisher) VALUES (%s, %s, %s)"
array = []
# The idea here is to get all table rows in the page so you
# can group the values into rows that are going to be added to MySQL
tr = soup.find_all('tr')
for table_row in tr:
row_data = table_row.find_all('td')
insert_row = [None, None, None]
for idx in range(len(row_data)):
if row_data[idx] and idx < 3:
data = re.sub('<[^>]*>', '', str(row_data[idx]))
if data:
insert_row[idx] = data
array.append(tuple(insert_row))
cursor = connection.cursor()
cursor.executemany(query, array)
cursor.commit()
Another way is to build the query yourself...
query = "INSERT INTO blues (created, published, publisher) VALUES "
array = []
# The idea here is to get all table rows in the page so you can group the values into rows that are going to be added to MySQL
tr = soup.find_all('tr')
for table_row in tr:
row_data = table_row.find_all('td')
insert_row = []
for data in row_data:
data = re.sub('<[^>]*>', '', str(data))
insert_row.append(data)
array.append(tuple(insert_row))
values = []
for item in array:
row = [None, None, None]
for idx in range(len(item)):
row[idx] = item[idx]
values.append(str(tuple(row)))
query += ",".join(values)
cursor = connection.cursor()
cursor.execute(query)
cursor.commit()
Hope this helps...