How to use WHERE IN with psycopg?

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I have a table like this:

id	topic_id
2	‘1’
3	‘1.1’
…	…
21	‘4’

and I would like to get a list of ids corresponding to their topic_ids.

I can query the database directly just fine:

SELECT id FROM culture_grants.topics WHERE topic_id IN ('1', '4')

# returns [2, 21]

But when I do it via psycopg (as recommended here), I get no results:

topic_ids = ['1', '4']

with psycopg.connect(os.environ['DB_CONNECTION']) as conn:
    with conn.cursor() as cur:
        sql = "SELECT id FROM topics WHERE topic_id IN (%(ids)s)"
        cur.execute(sql, {"ids": tuple(topic_ids)})

        cur.fetchall() # returns []

I can only get a single id out with

        cur.execute(sql, {"ids": topic_ids[0]})

        cur.fetchall() # I get [(2,)]

How can I get the whole list out?

Asked By: sjaustirni

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Answer 1

You may build a dynamic WHERE IN (...) clause, with a variable number of %s placeholders, and then bind the correct tuple.

where = "WHERE topic_id IN (?" + ", ?"*(len(topic_ids) - 1) + ")"
sql = "SELECT id FROM topics " + where
cur.execute(sql, tuple(topic_ids))
cur.fetchall()

Answered By: Tim Biegeleisen

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