Generating pyodbc SQL syntax within a loop - ms-access

Question

Can you do such a thing? I have the following but cursor.execute does not like the syntax of selectSQL. Ultimately I'm looking to iterate through all tables in a .accdb and insert records from each table into a another .accdb with the same tables and fields. Reason being, bringing over new records from field data collection on TabletPCs to master database on server.
import pyodbc
connOtherDB = pyodbc.connect("Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb, *.accdb)};DBQ='path to my dbase;")
otherDBtbls = connOtherDB.cursor().tables()
for t in otherDBtbls:
if t.table_name.startswith("tbl"): #ignores MS sys tables
cursor = connOtherDB.cursor()
#selectSQL = '"SELECT * from '+ str(t.table_name) + '"'
cursor.execute("SELECT * from tblDatabaseComments") #this works if I refer to a table by name
cursor.execute(selectSQL) #this does not work. throws SQL syntax error
row = cursor.fetchone()
if row:
print t.table_name
print row

Answer 1

Use str.format() to ease building of SQL statements:
import pyodbc
connOtherDB = pyodbc.connect("Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb, *.accdb)};DBQ='path to my dbase;")
otherDBtbls = connOtherDB.cursor().tables()
for t in otherDBtbls:
if t.table_name.startswith("tbl"): #ignores MS sys tables
cursor = connOtherDB.cursor()
selectSQL = 'SELECT * FROM {}'.format(t.table_name)
cursor.execute(selectSQL)
row = cursor.fetchone()
if row:
print t.table_name
print row
As an aside, take a look a PEP 8 -- Style Guide for Python Code for guidance on maximum line length and variable naming, among other coding conventions.