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To pass identifiers to postgresql through psycopg use AsIs from the extensions module from psycopg2.extensions import AsIs import psycopg2 connection = psycopg2.connect(database=”db”, user=”user”) cur = connection.cursor() cur.mogrify( ‘CREATE USER %s PASSWORD %s’, (AsIs(‘someuser’), AsIs(‘somepassword’)) ) ‘CREATE USER someuser PASSWORD somepassword’ That works also for passing conditions to clauses like order by: cur.mogrify( ‘select * from … Read more