Suppose I've connected to the server and I want to execute a couple of
queries.

Lets say im connected to a database with a table called People.

People has the columns Age, Name, Height, and Weight.

conn = MySQLdb.connect(host = ......)

cursor1 = conn.cursor()

myName = 'Bob'

The query I want to execute is as follows. But I get an error when I run

this. How do I use something that i've done in python inside my queries
without getting errors?

cursor1.execute('''SELECT * FROM People WHERE Name = myName''')

I have also tried:

cursor1.execute('''SELECT * FROM People WHERE Name ='''+myName)

cursor1.execute("SELECT * FROM People WHERE Name = '"+str(myName) + "'")

cursor1.execute("'SELECT * FROM People WHERE Name ='" + str(myName) + "'")

cursor1.execute("'select * from People where Name ='" +"'"+str(myName)+"'")

I was advised to use escape quotes which I tried but my syntax was probably
wrong

Any help would be appreciated. I feel very limited using mysqldb without being
able to execute queries that use globally defined variables.

Thanks!!

You want to use %s to hold places for your arguments, and then pass a tuple of
arguments as the second argument to execute:

cursor1.execute("SELECT * FROM People WHERE Name=%s", (myName,))

cursor1.execute('SELECT * FROM People WHERE Name=%s', myName)