In Python 3, using mysql.connector, passing mysql function in insert

Question

I am using Python 3.4 and mysql.connector. I would like to to enter something like this in an insert statement:

st = 'insert into tbl(rate,inputDt) values(%s,%s)'
data = (rate, NOW())
cur.execute(st,data)

Where NOW() is the mysql function for current datetime

I can get the equivalent value by constructing a variable in Python:

today = date.today()

But how can I pass the the mysql function as above?

Answer 1

Not familiar with this, but I think you can pass the MySQL function as a string.

st = 'insert into tbl(rate,inputDt) values(%s,NOW())'
data = (rate)
cur.execute(st,data)