OperationalError: near "System": syntax error

Question

OperationalError                          Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-7-e63de1bbf3b5> in <module>()

      1 for row in df.iterrows():
      2        sql = 'INSERT INTO salesdata ({}) VALUES ({})'.format(','.join(df.columns), ','.join(['?']*len(df.columns)))
----> 3        c.execute(sql, tuple(row[1]))
      4 conn.commit()

I get OperationalError: near "System": syntax error . I tried inserting more space and removing space between single quotes it does not work. How do I make this code work?

Answer 1

Presumably one of your column names is System . This is a reserved word in MySQL 8.0, so it needs to be escaped. You should surround all the column names with backticks.

sql = 'INSERT INTO salesdata ({}) VALUES ({})'.format(','.join('`' + col + '`' for col in df.columns), ','.join(['?']*len(df.columns)))