Can't execute mysql insert using pythons mysqldb

Question

This is my first question on stackoverflow, I'm currently programming a steamcommunity crawler, which crawls through the steam profiles and saves things like owned games, steamname, friends. ... But when I try to run the insert command it just does NOTHING.

 if not self.check_user('games', id):
  print "insert"
  self.cursor.execute("INSERT INTO games (userid) VALUES(%s);" % id)

The program displays "insert" but the execute command does neither throw an exception, nor inserts something to the database. In addition, an eventualy happening exception is not caught. When I forexample change the query towards "INSERT INTO games (useridd)", the program quits and I see the exception.

The application is multithreaded but acquired before executing, so I can't see any issue in that.

Answer 1

1. add "COMMIT" at the end of command

   for example:

    cursor.execute("INSERT INTO games (userid) VALUES(%s);COMMIT;" % id)

2. set autocommit by add the second line

   db = MySQLdb.connect(user='username', db=dbName,) # exmaple db.autocommit(1) # enable auto commit

3. add commit() after transaction

    db.commit()

Answer 2

You forgot to commit the transaction .