# Creates instructions for the robot to move 360 degrees around, make photos of the ball-plate and write the ball_colors to the database import MySQLdb import random db = MySQLdb.connect("localhost","root","root","rpr_robot" ) # Open database connection cursor = db.cursor() # prepare a cursor object using cursor() method # Get the number of rows in the database for the loop cursor.execute('select * from ball_positions') cursor.fetchall() num_entries = cursor.rowcount - 1 # Define the possible colors of the balls colors = ["blue", "red", "yellow", "cyan", "green"] is_empty = 0; # Go through array and write detected positions to database for i in range(0, num_entries + 1): # Ball-Position 29 must be empty at any time! if i == 29: is_empty = 1 color = "invalid" else: is_empty = 0 # Set random color -> Just for offline-programming! color = random.choice(colors); # Prepare SQL query to UPDATE required records sql = "UPDATE ball_positions SET pos_isEmpty = %i, ball_color = '%s', ball_targetPos = 0, ball_prio = -1 WHERE pos_id = %i" % (is_empty, color, i) try: cursor.execute(sql) # Execute the SQL command db.commit() # Commit your changes in the database except: print "Error: unable to update records" db.rollback() # Rollback in case there is any error db.close() # disconnect from server