Issues updating a MySQL table using Python's MySQLdb

Question

I am trying to UPDATE a MySQL table using Python's MySQLdb module. Although the query seems fairly simple it just won't update the information. Here is my code:

for username,info in users.iteritems():
  if info[0] > 0 and info[1] > 0:
    month = 8
    year = 2010
    cursor.execute("""
        UPDATE users_disk
        SET
            bytes = %s,
            quota_in_mb = %s
        WHERE
            username = %s AND
            month = %s AND
            year = %s
        """, (info[0], info[1], username, month, year))
    print "Username: %s; Rowcount: %d" % (username, cursor.rowcount)

The output looks like this:

Username: niu666; Rowcount: 0
Username: antuan; Rowcount: 0
Username: tuyo; Rowcount: 0
Username: angela; Rowcount: 0
Username: felipe; Rowcount: 0
Username: Meni; Rowcount: 0
Username: tronco; Rowcount: 0
Username: queque; Rowcount: 0
Username: cerel; Rowcount: 0

Which means none of the rows have been updated! The table has the following contents:

mysql> select * from users_disk;
+----+----------+-------+------+---------+-------------+
| id | username | month | year | bytes   | quota_in_mb |
+----+----------+-------+------+---------+-------------+
|  1 | niu666   |     8 | 2010 |   28672 |     1024000 | 
|  2 | antuan   |     8 | 2010 |   77824 |     4608000 | 
|  3 | tuyo     |     8 | 2010 |   28672 |     1024000 | 
|  4 | angela   |     8 | 2010 |   45056 |     2048000 | 
|  5 | felipe   |     8 | 2010 |   53248 |      307200 | 
|  6 | Meni     |     8 | 2010 |   86016 |     4096000 | 
|  7 | tronco   |     8 | 2010 | 3067904 |     1024000 | 
|  8 | queque   |     8 | 2010 |   61440 |     4608000 | 
|  9 | cerel    |     8 | 2010 |  110592 |     5632000 | 
+----+----------+-------+------+---------+-------------+
9 rows in set (0.00 sec)

And users is a dictionary with the following contents:

{'niu666': (28672, 1024000), 'tutk': (-1, -1), 'antuan': (77824, 4608000), 'tolin': (-1, -1), 'tuyo': (28672, 1024000), 'angela': (45056, 2048000), 'felipe': (53248, 307200), 'Meni': (86016, 4096000), 'tronco': (3067904, 1024000), 'queque': (61440, 4608000), 'cerel': (110592, 5632000), 'carok': (-1, -1), 'niu': (-1, -1)}

I think the issue might be related to username because if I remove it the update works. But of course I need to use it...

Any pointers/recommendations will be highly appreciated.

Thank you so much,

Unai Rodriguez

-------------------------- update -------------------------

Guys, I am using the following "ugly" workaround... that works:

for username,info in users.iteritems():
    if info[0] > 0 and info[1] > 0:
        # The user has positive values, its valid!
        cursor.execute("DELETE FROM " + dbtable + " WHERE username = %s AND month = %s AND year = %s", \
            (username, month, year))
        cursor.execute("INSERT INTO " + dbtable + " (id, username, month, year, bytes, quota_in_mb) VALUES (NULL, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s)", \
                                            (username, month, year, info[0], info[1]))

Still I am interested in knowing what is wrong with the UPDATE (first implementation). I will leave the script like that for now. Thank you so much.

Answer 1

Did you try COMMIT command after update as following?

cursor.execute("UPDATE animals SET species=%s WHERE name=%s",('TEST', 'Rollo'))

cursor.connection.commit();