ps16thypresenceisfullnessof...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm completely new to SQL, and recently started using SQLite in one of my > Python programs. I've gotten what I wanted to work, but I'm not sure if > I'm doing it in the best/most efficient way. I have attached some sample > code and would appreciate any (polite) comments about how the SQL (or > Python) in it could be improved. The code is written in Python 2, but I > think it should work in Python 3 if the 4 print statements are changed to > function calls. Am I correct that the function 'set_description2' should > work the same way as 'set_description'?
> def set_description2(conn, name, description): > with conn: > if description: > conn.execute("INSERT OR REPLACE INTO ProgrammingLanguages " \ > "VALUES(?,?)", (name, description)) > else: > conn.execute("DELETE FROM ProgrammingLanguages WHERE Name=?", > (name,)) > conn.commit() Have a look at these to see how this can be wrapped into a dict-like object: http://svn.python.org/view/sandbox/trunk/dbm_sqlite/alt/dbsqlite.py?view=markup https://github.com/shish/sqliteshelf/blob/master/sqliteshelf.py -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list