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From: Roy Smith <roy@panix.com>
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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 10:48:28 -0400
Subject: How to find bad row with db api executemany()?
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I'm inserting a gazillion rows into a MySQL database using MySQLdb and =
cursor.executemany() for efficiency.  Every once in a while, I get a row =
which violates some kind of database constraint and raises Error.

I can catch the exception, but don't see any way to tell which row =
caused the problem.  Is this information obtainable, short of retrying =
each row one by one?

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