Inserting a Python datetime.datetime object into MySQL
You are most likely getting the TypeError because you need quotes around the datecolumn value.
Try:
now = datetime.datetime(2009, 5, 5)cursor.execute("INSERT INTO table (name, id, datecolumn) VALUES (%s, %s, '%s')", ("name", 4, now))With regards to the format, I had success with the above command (which includes the milliseconds) and with:
now.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')Hope this helps.
Try using now.date() to get a Date object rather than a DateTime.
If that doesn't work, then converting that to a string should work:
now = datetime.datetime(2009,5,5)str_now = now.date().isoformat()cursor.execute('INSERT INTO table (name, id, datecolumn) VALUES (%s,%s,%s)', ('name',4,str_now))