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Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 17:14:34 -0500
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On Sun 06 Jan 2013 04:53:32 PM EST, andydtaylor@gmail.com wrote:
> Wow it's as simple as that! I'm afraid my database experience is in Microsoft Access in Windows and not at the command line, so that wasn't intuitive for me.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Andy


IIRC I made the same mistake when I was using psycopg for the first 
time.
I think wrapper libraries like sqlalchemy usually have myrecord.save()
method which is more intuitive.

 -m


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