Class ProgrammingError

              object --+                        
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exceptions.BaseException --+                    
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        exceptions.Exception --+                
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        exceptions.StandardError --+            
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                          MySQLError --+        
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                                   Error --+    
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                               DatabaseError --+
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                                              ProgrammingError

Exception raised for programming errors, e.g. table not found or already exists, syntax error in the SQL statement, wrong number of parameters specified, etc.