# copy_to.py -- example about copy_to # # Copyright (C) 2002 Tom Jenkins # Copyright (C) 2005 Federico Di Gregorio # # psycopg2 is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it # under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published # by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # psycopg2 is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT # ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public # License for more details. ## put in DSN your DSN string DSN = 'dbname=test' ## don't modify anything below this line (except for experimenting) from __future__ import print_function import sys import os import StringIO import psycopg2 if len(sys.argv) > 1: DSN = sys.argv[1] print("Opening connection using dsn:", DSN) conn = psycopg2.connect(DSN) print("Encoding for this connection is", conn.encoding) curs = conn.cursor() try: curs.execute("CREATE TABLE test_copy (fld1 text, fld2 text, fld3 int4)") except: conn.rollback() curs.execute("DROP TABLE test_copy") curs.execute("CREATE TABLE test_copy (fld1 text, fld2 text, fld3 int4)") conn.commit() # demostrate copy_to functionality data = [('Tom', 'Jenkins', '37'), ('Madonna', None, '45'), ('Federico', 'Di Gregorio', None)] query = "INSERT INTO test_copy VALUES (%s, %s, %s)" curs.executemany(query, data) conn.commit() # copy_to using defaults io = open('copy_to.txt', 'w') curs.copy_to(io, 'test_copy') print("1) Copy %d records into file object using defaults: " % len (data) + \ "sep = \\t and null = \\N") io.close() rows = open('copy_to.txt', 'r').readlines() print(" File has %d rows:" % len(rows)) for r in rows: print(" ", r, end=' ') # copy_to using custom separator io = open('copy_to.txt', 'w') curs.copy_to(io, 'test_copy', ':') print("2) Copy %d records into file object using sep = :" % len(data)) io.close() rows = open('copy_to.txt', 'r').readlines() print(" File has %d rows:" % len(rows)) for r in rows: print(" ", r, end=' ') # copy_to using custom null identifier io = open('copy_to.txt', 'w') curs.copy_to(io, 'test_copy', null='NULL') print("3) Copy %d records into file object using null = NULL" % len(data)) io.close() rows = open('copy_to.txt', 'r').readlines() print(" File has %d rows:" % len(rows)) for r in rows: print(" ", r, end=' ') # copy_to using custom separator and null identifier io = open('copy_to.txt', 'w') curs.copy_to(io, 'test_copy', ':', 'NULL') print("4) Copy %d records into file object using sep = : and null ) NULL" % \ len(data)) io.close() rows = open('copy_to.txt', 'r').readlines() print(" File has %d rows:" % len(rows)) for r in rows: print(" ", r, end=' ') curs.execute("DROP TABLE test_copy") os.unlink('copy_to.txt') conn.commit()