I've been looking around and reading, and I have a few more questions
about SQLite in particular, as it relates to Python.
1. What is the current module to use for sqlite? sqlite3? or is that not
out until Python 2.5?
2. What's the difference between sqlite and pysqlite? Do you need both,
just one, or is one an older version of the same thing?
3. What's the difference between the command line program called sqlite3
and the module you would use with Python? (I know that the former let's
you do normal database things without dealing with Python, but is it
necessary if you are using Python to interact with the DB?)
Thanks! 12 2485
2. What's the difference between sqlite and pysqlite? Do you need both,
just one, or is one an older version of the same thing?
To access your database from python you need both (or some alternative
to pysqlite)
3. What's the difference between the command line program called sqlite3
and the module you would use with Python? (I know that the former let's
you do normal database things without dealing with Python, but is it
necessary if you are using Python to interact with the DB?)
slqite comes with a library which other programs can call, and a
command line interface
that you can use from the shell. pysqlite needs the library but I
don't think it is possible
to get one without the other.
Regards,
Andy an************* *@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>2. What's the difference between sqlite and pysqlite? Do you need both, just one, or is one an older version of the same thing?
To access your database from python you need both (or some alternative
to pysqlite)
I can understand this in terms of MySQL being one thing, and mysqldb
being the necessary module for Python to use MySQL. But in 2.5, for
example, which comes with sqlite3, is this all you need, or do you still
need pysqlite? Or are these two different things that can access the
sqlite system? (I guess I kind of thought there would be just one
standard module used for each type of database, such as mysqldb being
the one used for MySQL.)
John Salerno wrote:
an************* *@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
2. What's the difference between sqlite and pysqlite? Do you need both,
just one, or is one an older version of the same thing?
To access your database from python you need both (or some alternative
to pysqlite)
I can understand this in terms of MySQL being one thing, and mysqldb
being the necessary module for Python to use MySQL. But in 2.5, for
example, which comes with sqlite3, is this all you need, or do you still
need pysqlite? Or are these two different things that can access the
sqlite system? (I guess I kind of thought there would be just one
standard module used for each type of database, such as mysqldb being
the one used for MySQL.)
Your confusion is quite understandable. I started looking at sqlite
when the announcement that it would be included in Python 2.5 came out.
Puzzlement reigned. I ended up with the following up the front of my
experimental module:
import sys
PY_VERSION = sys.version_inf o[:2]
if PY_VERSION >= (2, 5):
import sqlite3
else:
from pysqlite2 import dbapi2 as sqlite3
print "Python :", sys.version
print "pysqlite:" , sqlite3.version
print "sqlite :", sqlite3.sqlite_ version
Interestingly, at the time pysqlite2 was providing a version of the
underlying C library that was 2.4-compatible but *later* than the
version that came with 2.5a2 [I haven't checked since].
So, if you want to try out sqlite now, download pysqlite2 and use it
with Python 2.4. If you have the 2.5 release candidate, you can try
your code with it as well, using version-detecting code along the above
lines.
I would strongly recommend for a learner of SQL and the Python DBAPI:
(1) start with sqlite; it's great, and there's minimal admin involved
(2) download the command-line utility from the sqlite website -- you'll
need it for the minimal admin, plus it's handy for quick one-line SQL
statements, peeking at the schema, etc.
HTH,
John
"John Machin" <sj******@lexic on.netwrote in message
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I would strongly recommend for a learner of SQL and the Python DBAPI:
(1) start with sqlite; it's great, and there's minimal admin involved
(2) download the command-line utility from the sqlite website -- you'll
need it for the minimal admin, plus it's handy for quick one-line SQL
statements, peeking at the schema, etc.
I've also become a big fan of sqlite. For a nice open source db gui
utility, download a copy of SQLite Database browser at http://sqlitebrowser.sourceforge.net.
-- Paul
John Machin wrote:
Your confusion is quite understandable. I started looking at sqlite
when the announcement that it would be included in Python 2.5 came out.
Puzzlement reigned. I ended up with the following up the front of my
experimental module:
So does this mean that when 2.5 is released, all I need is the built-in
module sqlite3?
John Salerno wrote:
John Machin wrote:
Your confusion is quite understandable. I started looking at sqlite
when the announcement that it would be included in Python 2.5 came out.
Puzzlement reigned. I ended up with the following up the front of my
experimental module:
So does this mean that when 2.5 is released, all I need is the built-in
module sqlite3?
Plus the command-line utility, which AFAICT is not included with Python
2.5.
John Machin wrote:
John Salerno wrote:
>John Machin wrote:
>>Your confusion is quite understandable. I started looking at sqlite when the announcement that it would be included in Python 2.5 came out. Puzzlement reigned. I ended up with the following up the front of my experimenta l module:
So does this mean that when 2.5 is released, all I need is the built-in module sqlite3?
Plus the command-line utility, which AFAICT is not included with Python
2.5.
Why? The sqlite3 module links to the library; it doesn't need a separate
executable. Or is that what you meant (since one generally never installs the
library without also installing the executable, too)?
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
SQLite, in whatever incarnation, is a "file server" database. There
is no separate database server running -- each application is linked
directly to the code that opens and processes the database file(s).
If SQLite is supplied with the impending Python 2.5, then the
code/library to access the database file is included. If one is running
Python 2.4, then one needs to obtain the third-party pysqlite package --
which, as I recall, includes the runtime library that does the database
file work.
The only reason, then, to download the stand-alone SQLite package
(not the python package) would be to obtain the command line query/admin
tool.
Thanks, that was a great response that pretty much covered everything I
was wondering. I would need pysqlite right now (2.4), or sqlite3 (2.5),
and I don't necessarily need the command line program if I'm using
Python as an interface.
What is really confusing is that I did a search for 'sqlite' in my
Ubuntu repositories and it came up with entries like this:
python2.4-pysqlite1.1 python interface to SQLite 3
python2.4-pysqlite2 python interface to SQLite 3
python2.4-pysqlite python interface to SQLite 2
python-pysqlite1.1 python interface to SQLite 3
python-pysqlite2 python interface to SQLite 3
python-sqlite python interface to SQlite 2
Needless to say, the numbering had me banging my head against my desk.
Robert Kern wrote:
John Machin wrote:
John Salerno wrote:
John Machin wrote:
Your confusion is quite understandable. I started looking at sqlite when the announcement that it would be included in Python 2.5 came out. Puzzlement reigned. I ended up with the following up the front of my experimental module:
So does this mean that when 2.5 is released, all I need is the built-in
module sqlite3?
Plus the command-line utility, which AFAICT is not included with Python
2.5.
Why? The sqlite3 module links to the library; it doesn't need a separate
executable. Or is that what you meant (since one generally never installs the
library without also installing the executable, too)?
Hi, Robert,
Sorry if that and the earlier message were unclear. The Python module
does Python DPAPI without any help from the standalone executable.
AFAICT (so far) the standalone executable also links to the library; it
provides a command-line interface to most/all the underlying sqlite
functionality. This is my understanding, but as stated earlier, I
haven't been playing with it for long, and maybe the Python module goes
way beyond DBAPI and I haven't stumbled on the extra goodies yet.
Regards,
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