String Interpolation Causing MysqlDB Errors

I'm trying to use mysqlDB, but I've run into a problem that doesn't make sense to me at all.

My problem is centered around the table name in the following execute statements.

This works:

c.execute(u'''insert into AIN0 (Date_Info, Raw_Data, Calculation_Formula, Calculated_Data) values (%s, %s, %s, %s)''',
                        (str(date), int(raw), int(formula), 0.1))

Neither of these work:

c.execute(u'''insert into %s (Date_Info, Raw_Data, Calculation_Formula, Calculated_Data) values (%s, %s, %s, %s)''',
                        (str("AIN0"), str(date), int(raw), int(formula), 0.1))
c.execute(u'''insert into 'AIN0' (Date_Info, Raw_Data, Calculation_Formula, Calculated_Data) values (%s, %s, %s, %s)''',
                        (str(date), int(raw), int(formula), 0.1))

The thing is, both of the non-working ones result in the same error message:

ProgrammingError: (1064, "You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ''AIN0' (Date_Info, Raw_Data, Calculation_Formula, Calculated_Data) values ('2011' at line 1")

Notice that in the error message, AIN0 is surrounded by single quotes, even in the case where I inserted it using the string interpolation operator. Just to be sure, I made an intentional syntax error in the working case in order to see what MySQL was looking at.

ProgrammingError: (1064, "You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near')) AIN0 (Date_Info, Raw_Data, Calculation_Formula, Calculated_Data) values ('201' at line 1")

Sure enough, in the one that MySQL works correctly with, AIN0 is not surrounded by single quotes leading me to believe that that is what is causing the error.

Why are single quotes being inserted around my strings when I use string interpolation and how do I get them to stop?