Handling newline character while executing Bigquery cmd via Python

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I have sql query in a string variable that I am executing via Python. The problem I am facing is that I can’t pass ‘n’ in the string variable. When using CHR(13) || CHR(10) I get following error –

Argument 2 to STRING_AGG must be a literal or query parameter

Query –

sql_stmt="""
    SELECT 
    STRING_AGG(COLUMN_NAME || ' ' || DATA_TYPE || ',' , CHR(13)) AS COLUMN_LIST
    FROM  `prj_name.dataset_name.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS`
"""

I am then using bigquery to execute the above statement using the client.query(sql_stmt) command. If I pass ‘n’ as command query is failing as string is getting split into two parts and failing.

Can someone tell me how I can handle this situation?

Asked By: VKarthik

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Answer 1

As @Jaytiger mentined you can use '\n' instead of CHR(13).

from google.cloud import bigquery

client = bigquery.Client(project="prj_name")

query = """
SELECT  STRING_AGG(COLUMN_NAME || ' ' || DATA_TYPE || ',' , '\n') AS COLUMN_LIST
FROM  `prj_name.dataset_name.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS`
"""

job = client.query(query)
res = job.result()
for r in res:
    print(r.COLUMN_LIST)

Answered By: Max Zolotenko

Answer 2

Try with sql_stmt=r"""...""" (note the r) and using n instead of CHR(13)

Answered By: 99_m4n

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