sqlite3 error

[John Salerno]

Here's my script:

import sqlite3

con = sqlite3.connect ('labdb')
cur = con.cursor()
cur.executescri pt('''
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS Researchers;
CREATE TABLE Researchers (
researcherID varchar(9) PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
birthYear int(4) DEFAULT NULL,
birthMonth int(2) DEFAULT NULL,
birthDay int(2) DEFAULT NULL,
birthCountry varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,
birthState char(2) DEFAULT NULL,
birthCity varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,
nameFirst varchar(50) NOT NULL,
nameLast varchar(50) NOT NULL,
nameGiven varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
);
''')

And here's the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python25\my scripts\labdb\d btest.py", line 19, in <module>
''')
OperationalErro r: near ")": syntax error

>>>

My script looks just like the example in the docs, so I'm not sure what
I'm doing wrong. The error message seems like it should be easy to
figure out, but all I did was close the triple quotes and then close the
parentheses, just like the example.

Hope someone can shed some light on this! :)

[Tim Chase]

import sqlite3

>
con = sqlite3.connect ('labdb')
cur = con.cursor()
cur.executescri pt('''
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS Researchers;
CREATE TABLE Researchers (
researcherID varchar(9) PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
birthYear int(4) DEFAULT NULL,
birthMonth int(2) DEFAULT NULL,
birthDay int(2) DEFAULT NULL,
birthCountry varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,
birthState char(2) DEFAULT NULL,
birthCity varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,
nameFirst varchar(50) NOT NULL,
nameLast varchar(50) NOT NULL,
nameGiven varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
);
''')

And here's the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python25\my scripts\labdb\d btest.py", line 19, in <module>
''')
OperationalErro r: near ")": syntax error

>>>

My script looks just like the example in the docs, so I'm not sure what
I'm doing wrong. The error message seems like it should be easy to
figure out, but all I did was close the triple quotes and then close the
parentheses, just like the example.

Hope someone can shed some light on this! :)

My guess would be the extra comma on the nameGiven line...most
SQL engines I've used would choke on that

- nameGiven varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
+ nameGiven varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL
-tkc

[John Salerno]

Tim Chase wrote:

My guess would be the extra comma on the nameGiven line...most SQL
engines I've used would choke on that

- nameGiven varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
+ nameGiven varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL

You're right! I think that must have been leftover from when it wasn't
the last line in the query. Thanks!

[John Machin]

John Salerno wrote:

CREATE TABLE Researchers (
researcherID varchar(9) PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
birthYear int(4) DEFAULT NULL,
birthMonth int(2) DEFAULT NULL,
birthDay int(2) DEFAULT NULL,
birthCountry varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,
birthState char(2) DEFAULT NULL,
birthCity varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,
nameFirst varchar(50) NOT NULL,
nameLast varchar(50) NOT NULL,
nameGiven varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,

A bit OT, but one answer to the "can you make a living with just
Python" question is "Yup, tool of choice for rummaging in and fixing
data that's been mangled by users cramming it into dodgy data models"
:-)

(1) Consider that some countries have states/provinces with 3-letter
abbreviations (e.g. Australia) or no abbreviation than I'm aware of in
a Latin alphabet (e.g. China).

(2) It's not apparent how you would use the first, last, and given
names columns, especially with two of them being "not null". Consider
how you would store e.g.:
J Edgar Hoover
DJ Delorie
Sukarno
35
Maggie Cheung Man-Yuk
Molnar Janos
Fatimah binte Rahman
Zhang Manyu

Cheers,
John

[John Salerno]

John Machin wrote:

John Salerno wrote:

>CREATE TABLE Researchers (
researcherID varchar(9) PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
birthYear int(4) DEFAULT NULL,
birthMonth int(2) DEFAULT NULL,
birthDay int(2) DEFAULT NULL,
birthCountry varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,
birthState char(2) DEFAULT NULL,
birthCity varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,
nameFirst varchar(50) NOT NULL,
nameLast varchar(50) NOT NULL,
nameGiven varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,

A bit OT, but one answer to the "can you make a living with just
Python" question is "Yup, tool of choice for rummaging in and fixing
data that's been mangled by users cramming it into dodgy data models"
:-)

(1) Consider that some countries have states/provinces with 3-letter
abbreviations (e.g. Australia) or no abbreviation than I'm aware of in
a Latin alphabet (e.g. China).

Good point. I guess since this program is for my own use, I just figured
I could stick with the American style abbreviation. But it's not as if I
actually considered that this wouldn't always work, so it's good to be
aware of the issue.

(2) It's not apparent how you would use the first, last, and given
names columns, especially with two of them being "not null". Consider
how you would store e.g.:
J Edgar Hoover
DJ Delorie
Sukarno
35
Maggie Cheung Man-Yuk
Molnar Janos
Fatimah binte Rahman
Zhang Manyu

Not sure I follow you on some of these examples. In the case of J Edgar
Hoover, I would just put the full name for his first name, or if "J" is
entered, then just that, I suppose. Given name will be first name +
middle name(s). (I took most of this schema from a baseball database, so
maybe it's just something that worked better there.)

[John Salerno]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:41:54 GMT, John Salerno
<jo******@NOSPA Mgmail.comdecla imed the following in comp.lang.pytho n:

>You're right! I think that must have been leftover from when it wasn't
the last line in the query. Thanks!

You also, based upon the cut&paste, have a stray

"")

(or something similar in the last line)

I don't see this. The code works now, though. Maybe it was something
carried over by pasting.

[John Salerno]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:05:16 GMT, John Salerno
<jo******@NOSPA Mgmail.comdecla imed the following in comp.lang.pytho n:

>I don't see this. The code works now, though. Maybe it was something
carried over by pasting.

Here's a snippet from your original listing:

> nameFirst varchar(50) NOT NULL,
nameLast varchar(50) NOT NULL,
nameGiven varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
);
''')

That's correct, though, isn't it? Those quotes are the closing quotes of
the argument to executescript()

[John Machin]

John Salerno wrote:

John Machin wrote:

John Salerno wrote:

CREATE TABLE Researchers (
researcherID varchar(9) PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
birthYear int(4) DEFAULT NULL,
birthMonth int(2) DEFAULT NULL,
birthDay int(2) DEFAULT NULL,
birthCountry varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,
birthState char(2) DEFAULT NULL,
birthCity varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,
nameFirst varchar(50) NOT NULL,
nameLast varchar(50) NOT NULL,
nameGiven varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,

A bit OT, but one answer to the "can you make a living with just
Python" question is "Yup, tool of choice for rummaging in and fixing
data that's been mangled by users cramming it into dodgy data models"
:-)

[snip]

>

(2) It's not apparent how you would use the first, last, and given
names columns, especially with two of them being "not null". Consider
how you would store e.g.:
J Edgar Hoover
DJ Delorie
Sukarno
35
Maggie Cheung Man-Yuk
Molnar Janos
Fatimah binte Rahman
Zhang Manyu

Not sure I follow you on some of these examples. In the case of J Edgar
Hoover, I would just put the full name for his first name, or if "J" is
entered, then just that, I suppose. Given name will be first name +
middle name(s). (I took most of this schema from a baseball database, so
maybe it's just something that worked better there.)

You sure to be using "last name" to mean "surname" in the sense of
unchanging family name e.g. John and Mary Smith are the children of
Fred Smith, who is the son of Joe Smith.

You would address a letter to Mary as "Dear Ms Smith", and in follow-on
paragraphs in (say) a news article might refer to her using only the
surname e.g. "Smith also announced ...".

The problems are (1) there are cultures that don't have the concept of
a surname, and if they do, it may not be the "last name" (2) the name
may consist of only one word (giving you problems with "not null") or
not even be a word.

DJ Delorie -- his "given name" *is* DJ
Sukarno -- one word name
35 -- some jurisdictions allow name to include (or consist solely of)
digits
Maggie Cheung Man-Yuk -- surname is Cheung [Hong Kong romanisation]
Molnar Janos -- surname is Molnar
Fatimah binte Rahman -- no surname; daughter of person whose given name
is Rahman
Zhang Manyu -- surname is Zhang [pinyin romanisation]; same person as
Maggie Cheung Man-Yuk

It gets better:

Iceland: Jon Bjornsson and Hildur Bjornsdottir are the children of
Bjorn Eiriksson.

Portuguese: Jose Carlos Fernandes [mothers's family name] Rodrigues
[fathers's family name]; first step in shortening gives Jose Carlos
Rodrigues -- no drama here, but compare with Spanish: Jose Carlos
Fernandez [father's family name] Rodriguez [mother's family name],
shortened to Jose Carlos Fernandez.

[parts of] Somalia, Ethiopia: [using English given-name words for
clarity] Tom Dick Harry and Janet Dick Harry are the children of Dick
Harry Fred, who is the son of Harry Fred Joe.

Vietnamese: Full name e.g. Nguyen Thi Hoa Dung -- I have seen this
recorded as last name = Nguyen (that's the family name; doing well so
far), but first name = Thi. Thi means "Ms" or "female". The "first
name" is actually Dung. Given the popularity of Nguyen as a family name
(about 50% !!) , the recorded information has narrowed the choice to
about 25% of the Vietnamese population :-(

Cheers,
John

[Paul Rubin]

"John Machin" <sj******@lexic on.netwrites:

It gets better:

Iceland:...
Portuguese:...
[parts of] Somalia, Ethiopia:...
Vietnamese:...

You might add something about Arabic filionyms.

[Steve Holden]

John Machin wrote:

John Salerno wrote:

>>John Machin wrote:

>>>John Salerno wrote:

CREATE TABLE Researchers (
researcherID varchar(9) PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
birthYear int(4) DEFAULT NULL,
birthMonth int(2) DEFAULT NULL,
birthDay int(2) DEFAULT NULL,
birthCountry varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,
birthState char(2) DEFAULT NULL,
birthCity varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,
nameFirst varchar(50) NOT NULL,
nameLast varchar(50) NOT NULL,
nameGiven varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,

A bit OT, but one answer to the "can you make a living with just
Python" question is "Yup, tool of choice for rummaging in and fixing
data that's been mangled by users cramming it into dodgy data models"
:-)

[snip]

>>>(2) It's not apparent how you would use the first, last, and given
names columns, especially with two of them being "not null". Consider
how you would store e.g.:
J Edgar Hoover
DJ Delorie
Sukarno
35
Maggie Cheung Man-Yuk
Molnar Janos
Fatimah binte Rahman
Zhang Manyu

Not sure I follow you on some of these examples. In the case of J Edgar
Hoover, I would just put the full name for his first name, or if "J" is
entered, then just that, I suppose. Given name will be first name +
middle name(s). (I took most of this schema from a baseball database, so
maybe it's just something that worked better there.)

You sure to be using "last name" to mean "surname" in the sense of
unchanging family name e.g. John and Mary Smith are the children of
Fred Smith, who is the son of Joe Smith.

You would address a letter to Mary as "Dear Ms Smith", and in follow-on
paragraphs in (say) a news article might refer to her using only the
surname e.g. "Smith also announced ...".

The problems are (1) there are cultures that don't have the concept of
a surname, and if they do, it may not be the "last name" (2) the name
may consist of only one word (giving you problems with "not null") or
not even be a word.

DJ Delorie -- his "given name" *is* DJ
Sukarno -- one word name
35 -- some jurisdictions allow name to include (or consist solely of)
digits
Maggie Cheung Man-Yuk -- surname is Cheung [Hong Kong romanisation]
Molnar Janos -- surname is Molnar
Fatimah binte Rahman -- no surname; daughter of person whose given name
is Rahman
Zhang Manyu -- surname is Zhang [pinyin romanisation]; same person as
Maggie Cheung Man-Yuk

It gets better:

Iceland: Jon Bjornsson and Hildur Bjornsdottir are the children of
Bjorn Eiriksson.

Portuguese: Jose Carlos Fernandes [mothers's family name] Rodrigues
[fathers's family name]; first step in shortening gives Jose Carlos
Rodrigues -- no drama here, but compare with Spanish: Jose Carlos
Fernandez [father's family name] Rodriguez [mother's family name],
shortened to Jose Carlos Fernandez.

[parts of] Somalia, Ethiopia: [using English given-name words for
clarity] Tom Dick Harry and Janet Dick Harry are the children of Dick
Harry Fred, who is the son of Harry Fred Joe.

Vietnamese: Full name e.g. Nguyen Thi Hoa Dung -- I have seen this
recorded as last name = Nguyen (that's the family name; doing well so
far), but first name = Thi. Thi means "Ms" or "female". The "first
name" is actually Dung. Given the popularity of Nguyen as a family name
(about 50% !!) , the recorded information has narrowed the choice to
about 25% of the Vietnamese population :-(

While I don't dispute any of this erudite display of esoteric
nomenclature wisdom the fact remains that many (predominantly Western)
databases do tend to use first and last name (in America often with the
addition of a one- or two-character "middle initial" field).

So, having distilled your knowledge to its essence could you please give
me some prescriptive advice about what I *should* do? :-)

regards
Steve
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