Khalid Al-Ghamdi wrote: > Is there a way to create a func that returns a cursor that can be used to > execute sql statements?
You should read an introductory text on Python, this is not specific to sqlite3. > I tried this (after importing sqlite3), but it gave me the error below: > >>>> def connect(): > conn = sqlite3.connect(':memory:')#use sch3.db or sch4.db .... etc. > cur = conn.cursor() > cur.execute("create table schedule (teams integer, sn integer, badge > integer ,name text, grp integer,\ > major text, track text, stage text, tc text, subject text, course > text, ws text, date text, \ time text, proctor text, code text, no > integer,fl_time text, flag2 text, flag3 text, flag4 text, clash1 > integer, clash2 integer)") return cur >>>> connect() connect() returns a cursor, but you discard the result. Try cur = connect() > <sqlite3.Cursor object at 0x0119EA20> >>>> cur.execute("select * from schedule") > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<pyshell#26>", line 1, in <module> > cur.execute("select * from schedule") > NameError: name 'cur' is not defined -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list