[Python-Dev] Bug in the DELETE statement in sqlite3 module (original) (raw)

ninostephen mathew ninosm12 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 15 02:40:06 EDT 2016


Respected Developer(s), while writing a database module for one of my applications in python I encountered something interesting. I had a username and password field in my table and only one entry which was "Admin" and "password". While debugging I purposefully deleted that record. Then I ran the same statement again. To my surprise, it got execute. Then I ran the statement to delete the user "admin" (lowercase 'a') which does not exist in the table. Surprisingly again is got executed even though the table was empty. What I expected was an error popping up. But nothing happened. I hope this error gets fixed soon. The code snippet is given below.

self.cursor.execute(''' DELETE FROM Users WHERE username = ?''',(self.username,)) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20160615/54140378/attachment.html>



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