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I am trying to get my Python code to count the number of records in my table. However, the Python shell keeps throwing up a "error in your SQL syntax" message. Does anyone have any ideas on what is wrong?

def count_rows(table):
 cur.execute(
 "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM %s",
 (table,)
 )
 cur.connection.commit()
count_rows("home_service")
Mureinik
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asked Sep 29, 2015 at 16:05

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Bound parameters, such as the execute function has can only be used to represent values - not object names or syntactic elements. If you want to dynamically determine set the table name, you'd have to resort to string manipulation: 

cur.execute("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM %s" % table)
answered Sep 29, 2015 at 16:10
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