# copy_from.py -- example about copy_from # # Copyright (C) 2002 Tom Jenkins # Copyright (C) 2005 Federico Di Gregorio # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the # Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later # version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTIBILITY # or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License # for more details. # ## put in DSN your DSN string DSN = 'dbname=test' ## don't modify anything below tis line (except for experimenting) import sys import os import StringIO import psycopg if len(sys.argv) > 1: DSN = sys.argv[1] print "Opening connection using dns:", DSN conn = psycopg.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() # copy_from with default arguments, from open file io = open('copy_from.txt', 'wr') data = ['Tom\tJenkins\t37\n', 'Madonna\t\N\t45\n', 'Federico\tDi Gregorio\t\N\n'] io.writelines(data) io.close() io = open('copy_from.txt', 'r') curs.copy_from(io, 'test_copy') print "1) Copy %d records from file object " % len(data) + \ "using defaults (sep: \\t and null = \\N)" io.close() curs.execute("SELECT * FROM test_copy") rows = curs.fetchall() print " Select returned %d rows" % len(rows) for r in rows: print " %s %s\t%s" % (r[0], r[1], r[2]) curs.execute("delete from test_copy") conn.commit() # copy_from using custom separator, from open file io = open('copy_from.txt', 'wr') data = ['Tom:Jenkins:37\n', 'Madonna:\N:45\n', 'Federico:Di Gregorio:\N\n'] io.writelines(data) io.close() io = open('copy_from.txt', 'r') curs.copy_from(io, 'test_copy', ':') print "2) Copy %d records from file object using sep = :" % len(data) io.close() curs.execute("SELECT * FROM test_copy") rows = curs.fetchall() print " Select returned %d rows" % len(rows) for r in rows: print " %s %s\t%s" % (r[0], r[1], r[2]) curs.execute("delete from test_copy") conn.commit() # copy_from using custom null identifier, from open file io = open('copy_from.txt', 'wr') data = ['Tom\tJenkins\t37\n', 'Madonna\tNULL\t45\n', 'Federico\tDi Gregorio\tNULL\n'] io.writelines(data) io.close() io = open('copy_from.txt', 'r') curs.copy_from(io, 'test_copy', null='NULL') print "3) Copy %d records from file object using null = NULL" % len(data) io.close() curs.execute("SELECT * FROM test_copy") rows = curs.fetchall() print " Select using cursor returned %d rows" % len(rows) for r in rows: print " %s %s\t%s" % (r[0], r[1], r[2]) curs.execute("delete from test_copy") conn.commit() # copy_from using custom separator and null identifier io = open('copy_from.txt', 'wr') data = ['Tom:Jenkins:37\n', 'Madonna:NULL:45\n', 'Federico:Di Gregorio:NULL\n'] io.writelines(data) io.close() io = open('copy_from.txt', 'r') curs.copy_from(io, 'test_copy', ':', 'NULL') print "4) Copy %d records from file object " % len(data) + \ "using sep = : and null = NULL" io.close() curs.execute("SELECT * FROM test_copy") rows = curs.fetchall() print " Select using cursor returned %d rows" % len(rows) for r in rows: print " %s %s\t%s" % (r[0], r[1], r[2]) curs.execute("delete from test_copy") conn.commit() # anything can be used as a file if it has .read() and .readline() methods data = StringIO.StringIO() data.write('\n'.join(['Tom\tJenkins\t37', 'Madonna\t\N\t45', 'Federico\tDi Gregorio\t\N'])) data.seek(0) curs.copy_from(data, 'test_copy') print "5) Copy 3 records from StringIO object using defaults" curs.execute("SELECT * FROM test_copy") rows = curs.fetchall() print " Select using cursor returned %d rows" % len(rows) for r in rows: print " %s %s\t%s" % (r[0], r[1], r[2]) curs.execute("delete from test_copy") conn.commit() # simple error test print "6) About to raise an error" data = StringIO.StringIO() data.write('\n'.join(['Tom\tJenkins\t37', 'Madonna\t\N\t45', 'Federico\tDi Gregorio\taaa'])) data.seek(0) try: curs.copy_from(data, 'test_copy') except StandardError, err: conn.rollback() print " Catched error (as expected):\n", err conn.rollback() curs.execute("DROP TABLE test_copy") os.unlink('copy_from.txt') conn.commit()