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Error when inserting row into MySQL database from Python

I'm trying to update an empty mySQL database using Python.

This is the error I receive:

pymysql.err.InternalError: (1416, 'Cannot get geometry object from data you send to the GEOMETRY field')

Here's the problematic code:

try:
    with connection.cursor() as cursor:
        # Create a new record
        sql = "INSERT INTO `projects` (`name`, `country`,  `activation_date`, `active`) VALUES (%s, %s, %s, %s)"
        cursor.execute(sql, ('Nate', 'USA', '2016-06-23 09:11:32', '1'))

    connection.commit()

finally:
    connection.close()

Here is what the table looks like in the database (it's empty):

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Solution

  • It looks like you're using the MySQL type linestring to represent a string, while in MySQL the correct type to represent a string of characters would be text or varchar(<some_length>). linestring is a representation of a geometric line, as you can see here: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/gis-linestring-property-functions.html

    To fix this, simply change the column types of name and country to varchar(<some-length>) or text. See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/char.html