The spatialite extensions for SQLlite include a *read-only* virtual
table adapator (VirtualText) for CSV files.

http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite-2.2/spatialite-2.2_manual.html#t7

If the data-volumes are reasonably small, and the csv clients are read-
only and the frequency of updates to the database are fairly small
then I would be inclined to port the table to a vanilla sqlite
database and have some mechanism to dump out a CSV representation.
pjjH


On Jul 9, 12:51 pm, "Michael Bayer" <[email protected]> wrote:
> SQLAlchemy is a SQL generation tool.   a SQL engine for csv files (I
> believe MS Access can do this against excel files) would be required, as
> well as a DBAPI.
>
> pierre imbaud wrote:
>
> > google wont let me answer to  Lukasz Szybalski, I guess the message
> > was too old, so I have to quote it by hand.
>
> > I am New to sqlAlchemy, I have another good reason to ask for a csv
> > engine:
> > I wish to adapt an existing system, built around a csv file (to be
> > modelled as a single table), by a pylons application. Some existing
> > pieces of code use the csv file; If I use a db engine, I have 2 de
> > facto repositories, I have to keep in sync: wether automatically, or
> > thru a "sync screen" with 3 functions (file >> db, db >> file, diff):
> > would be much easier with a csv engine! No progress on this?
>
> > original message:
> > Hello, I was wondering if there are any plans to have a csv engine for
> > sqlalchemy. I would like to see support for csv. There are some cases
> > where csv is the best way to convert data to and from especially when
> > they require cleaning. What I would like to see is a sqlalchemy
> > wrapping over csv module and providing file definition and some of the
> > sql functionality into csv world. This would be really helpful when
> > moving things over from one system to another. Ideas? Thanks, Lucas --
> > OpenOffice and Pythonhttp://lucasmanual.com/mywiki/OpenOffice
> > Commercial Grade Backup with Baculahttp://lucasmanual.com/mywiki/Bacula
> >     More options Sep 3 2008, 10:25 pm
> > From: "Lukasz Szybalski" <[email protected]>
> > Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 15:25:36 -0500
> > Local: Wed, Sep 3 2008 10:25 pm
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