cursor.execute(u'SELECT * FROM list WHERE type_id =?', (2,))

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/cherrypy/_cprequest.py", line 645, in respond
    response.body = self.handler()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/cherrypy/lib/encoding.py", line 188, in __call__
    self.body = self.oldhandler(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/cherrypy/_cpdispatch.py", line 29, in __call__
    return self.callable(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
  File "/var/www/events/www.py", line 81, in index
    cursor.execute(u'SELECT * FROM list WHERE type_id =?', (str(2),))
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/MySQLdb/cursors.py", line 151, in execute
    query = query % db.literal(args)
TypeError: not all arguments converted during string formatting

sql = u'SELECT * FROM list WHERE name LIKE \%%s\%'

cursor.execute(u'SELECT * FROM list WHERE name LIKE %s', ('%%%s%%' % name,))