'%H:%M')
        record.append(endTime)
        startTime = record[-2][0:hyphenInd]
        startTime = datetime.strftime(datetime.strptime(startTime, '%I:%M %p'),
                                      '%H:%M')
        record[-2] = startTime
    #get instructor, date, and location
    record += scraper.data[i][16:17]
    record += scraper.data[i][-4:-2]
    if record[-3].strip() != "Instructor":
        # instructor field is in the format 'professor name (', reformatting it to remove the paranthesis
        record[-3] = record[-3][0:-2]
    cData.append(record)

#the following code assumes that the sql table 'courses' has the same structure of this data (column count and type)
sql = MySqlAccess("localhost", "root", "", "courses_db")
print("The following queries could not be entered:")
print("---------------------------------------------")
for record in cData:
    if record[0] == "Subj":
        continue
    query = "INSERT INTO courses VALUES("
    for item in record:
        query += "'" + item + "',"
    query = query[0:-1] + ")"
    try:
        sql.query(query)
    except:
        print(query)
sql.conn.close()