Issue #15067: Port 2.7 sqlite3 docs to 3.4

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Zachary Ware 2014-04-01 12:21:56 -05:00
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@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ SQLite for internal data storage. It's also possible to prototype an
application using SQLite and then port the code to a larger database such as
PostgreSQL or Oracle.
sqlite3 was written by Gerhard Häring and provides a SQL interface compliant
with the DB-API 2.0 specification described by :pep:`249`.
The sqlite3 module was written by Gerhard Häring. It provides a SQL interface
compliant with the DB-API 2.0 specification described by :pep:`249`.
To use the module, you must first create a :class:`Connection` object that
represents the database. Here the data will be stored in the
@ -31,23 +31,29 @@ and call its :meth:`~Cursor.execute` method to perform SQL commands::
c = conn.cursor()
# Create table
c.execute('''create table stocks
(date text, trans text, symbol text,
qty real, price real)''')
c.execute('''CREATE TABLE stocks
(date text, trans text, symbol text, qty real, price real)''')
# Insert a row of data
c.execute("""insert into stocks
values ('2006-01-05','BUY','RHAT',100,35.14)""")
c.execute("INSERT INTO stocks VALUES ('2006-01-05','BUY','RHAT',100,35.14)")
# Save (commit) the changes
conn.commit()
# We can also close the cursor if we are done with it
c.close()
# We can also close the connection if we are done with it.
# Just be sure any changes have been committed or they will be lost.
conn.close()
The data you've saved is persistent and is available in subsequent sessions::
import sqlite3
conn = sqlite3.connect('example.db')
c = conn.cursor()
Usually your SQL operations will need to use values from Python variables. You
shouldn't assemble your query using Python's string operations because doing so
is insecure; it makes your program vulnerable to an SQL injection attack.
is insecure; it makes your program vulnerable to an SQL injection attack
(see http://xkcd.com/327/ for humorous example of what can go wrong).
Instead, use the DB-API's parameter substitution. Put ``?`` as a placeholder
wherever you want to use a value, and then provide a tuple of values as the
@ -56,19 +62,20 @@ modules may use a different placeholder, such as ``%s`` or ``:1``.) For
example::
# Never do this -- insecure!
symbol = 'IBM'
c.execute("select * from stocks where symbol = '%s'" % symbol)
symbol = 'RHAT'
c.execute("SELECT * FROM stocks WHERE symbol = '%s'" % symbol)
# Do this instead
t = ('IBM',)
c.execute('select * from stocks where symbol=?', t)
t = ('RHAT',)
c.execute('SELECT * FROM stocks WHERE symbol=?', t)
print(c.fetchone())
# Larger example
for t in [('2006-03-28', 'BUY', 'IBM', 1000, 45.00),
('2006-04-05', 'BUY', 'MSFT', 1000, 72.00),
('2006-04-06', 'SELL', 'IBM', 500, 53.00),
]:
c.execute('insert into stocks values (?,?,?,?,?)', t)
# Larger example that inserts many records at a time
purchases = [('2006-03-28', 'BUY', 'IBM', 1000, 45.00),
('2006-04-05', 'BUY', 'MSFT', 1000, 72.00),
('2006-04-06', 'SELL', 'IBM', 500, 53.00),
]
c.executemany('INSERT INTO stocks VALUES (?,?,?,?,?)', purchases)
To retrieve data after executing a SELECT statement, you can either treat the
cursor as an :term:`iterator`, call the cursor's :meth:`~Cursor.fetchone` method to
@ -77,16 +84,13 @@ matching rows.
This example uses the iterator form::
>>> c = conn.cursor()
>>> c.execute('select * from stocks order by price')
>>> for row in c:
... print(row)
...
>>> for row in c.execute('SELECT * FROM stocks ORDER BY price'):
print(row)
('2006-01-05', 'BUY', 'RHAT', 100, 35.14)
('2006-03-28', 'BUY', 'IBM', 1000, 45.0)
('2006-04-06', 'SELL', 'IBM', 500, 53.0)
('2006-04-05', 'BUY', 'MSOFT', 1000, 72.0)
>>>
('2006-04-05', 'BUY', 'MSFT', 1000, 72.0)
.. seealso::
@ -99,6 +103,9 @@ This example uses the iterator form::
The SQLite web page; the documentation describes the syntax and the
available data types for the supported SQL dialect.
http://www.w3schools.com/sql/
Tutorial, reference and examples for learning SQL syntax.
:pep:`249` - Database API Specification 2.0
PEP written by Marc-André Lemburg.
@ -517,7 +524,7 @@ Cursor Objects
.. method:: execute(sql, [parameters])
Executes an SQL statement. The SQL statement may be parametrized (i. e.
Executes an SQL statement. The SQL statement may be parameterized (i. e.
placeholders instead of SQL literals). The :mod:`sqlite3` module supports two
kinds of placeholders: question marks (qmark style) and named placeholders
(named style).
@ -714,19 +721,20 @@ The following Python types can thus be sent to SQLite without any problem:
This is how SQLite types are converted to Python types by default:
+-------------+---------------------------------------------+
| SQLite type | Python type |
+=============+=============================================+
| ``NULL`` | :const:`None` |
+-------------+---------------------------------------------+
| ``INTEGER`` | :class:`int` |
+-------------+---------------------------------------------+
| ``REAL`` | :class:`float` |
+-------------+---------------------------------------------+
| ``TEXT`` | depends on text_factory, str by default |
+-------------+---------------------------------------------+
| ``BLOB`` | :class:`bytes` |
+-------------+---------------------------------------------+
+-------------+----------------------------------------------+
| SQLite type | Python type |
+=============+==============================================+
| ``NULL`` | :const:`None` |
+-------------+----------------------------------------------+
| ``INTEGER`` | :class:`int` |
+-------------+----------------------------------------------+
| ``REAL`` | :class:`float` |
+-------------+----------------------------------------------+
| ``TEXT`` | depends on :attr:`~Connection.text_factory`, |
| | :class:`str` by default |
+-------------+----------------------------------------------+
| ``BLOB`` | :class:`bytes` |
+-------------+----------------------------------------------+
The type system of the :mod:`sqlite3` module is extensible in two ways: you can
store additional Python types in a SQLite database via object adaptation, and
@ -742,9 +750,6 @@ use other Python types with SQLite, you must **adapt** them to one of the
sqlite3 module's supported types for SQLite: one of NoneType, int, float,
str, bytes.
The :mod:`sqlite3` module uses Python object adaptation, as described in
:pep:`246` for this. The protocol to use is :class:`PrepareProtocol`.
There are two ways to enable the :mod:`sqlite3` module to adapt a custom Python
type to one of the supported ones.
@ -800,8 +805,8 @@ and constructs a :class:`Point` object from it.
.. note::
Converter functions **always** get called with a string, no matter under which
data type you sent the value to SQLite.
Converter functions **always** get called with a :class:`bytes` object, no
matter under which data type you sent the value to SQLite.
::